Have Fiji Indians Changed
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Their Tune?
WHILE there are no grounds what ever for supposing that Indian political and other aims and am bitions in Fiji have been lowered, the last two months have seen a marked change in the behaviour of the formerly aggres sive gentlemen who pervade Suva’s shops and offices. This change is particularly noticeable in the attitude of young In dians towards Europeans.
The answer is not hard to find. The young Indians read the overseas cables in the newspapers avidly and, the march
of “free” India since August 15 has made deflating reading.
The day after Nehru’s pronouncement that his head “hung in shame” an In dian shopkeeper told this correspondent: “The news is worse and worse. It is a blow to our young men. They expected very big things when India was free.”
A son was born on September 4, in Port Moresby, to the Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Allen of the London Missionary Society, Uriki, Papua.
Sister E. M. Simmons left Australia re cently to join the nursing service of the Methodist Overseas Mission in Fiji.