Evening star., 1936-12-29
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Belligerent Aristocrat
Succeeds Gandhi as
India's Leader.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

n 4 AHATMA GANDHI says he's
M ready to go back to Jail, or
t perhaps be hanged. and in
u dictates that the pandit
Nehru feels that way, too. Gandhi
is SO and Nehru A.. The fighting
Nehru succeeds the ascetic Gandhl
as the symbol and human motivation
of India's freedom.
With India's several hundred mil
lions fluxed in the explosive world
power equation, his attitude becomes
important. 1t is belligerent He as
sails British imperialism" and sum-
mons the hordes Of India to combat
rather than non-resistance. England's
"new deal for India" is rejected
compromise. He demands not domin.
ion status. but absolute freedom.
Hitler and Mussolini. world gods Of
absolutism. were commoners The
pandit Jawahsrlal Nehru, who lnvokes
democracy. is an aristocrat Born Of
noble caste. he has endangered and
to some degree thwarted his political
career by championing the "untouch-
ables' and demanding their elevation
to human status. AS president Of the
Indian National Congress, to which
he gave his ancestral mansion, llg
has been, at times, sharply opposed
to Gandhi, but they apparently have
resolved their differences. Last Feb
ruary he was reelected to the presi-
dency of the congress.
The son of the Pandit Nothal Nehru,
reared in splendor, ne was an l1onors
man at Harrow and Cambridge. In
his early career IN India he was a
strong ally Of the English. His ab-
horrence Of the caste system. which he
accused the English of perpetuatlng.
broke this allegiance. He gave up his
law practice and joined Gandhl. In
1880 ne founded the Independence
League. He is accused of being a
Communist. This ne denies. pledging
his party 10 stand for full democ-
racy and not Socialism" but. at that.
he breaches MARKHAM doctrine as the
only possible salvation of India.
Lee LaWrie. distinguished archi-
tectural sculptor. says a sculptor Is
just like the fiddler in an orchestra.
His l5-foot statue of Atlas, to be
placed in the forecourt of the Inter-
national Building of Rockefeller Cen
ter next week was. like all his others.
team work" job In his big studio
over a Lexington avenue garage he
employs 10 or IS journeymen sculp-
tors
He has no use for smokers. Windsor
ties or artistic temperament. Mod
ern architectural art is a workman
like synthesis of individual skills in
central theme. subservient to the
main idea He would blend archi-
tects. engineers and stone cutters in a
symphony of stone and steel.
He doesn't think much of art schools
and never studiedsin one. At the age
of Is. he was apprenticed TO a sculp-
tor in Chicago. later studied with
St. Gaudens. System, accuracy and
precision characterize his work and
his output. When he did some bib
lical sculpture for the State capitol OF
Nebraska, there was contention about
whether Ezekiel has whiskers. He
was quick on the draw with the bib
lical proof that the prophet wore q
beard. Among his other commissions
have been the Yale Quadrangle. ths
Los Angeles Public Library, the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology. the
National Academy Of Sciences at
Washington and portions of the Ca.
thedral of St John the Divine.
(Copyright 1885,