WW II : RARE COLOR FILM : SAIPAN AND MARIANAS
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Prabhupada: No, it is going on. In
India I know. They are selling sugar at two annas, four annas a pound, or seer, outside, and India, it is four rupees.
What is this nonsense? This is going on. They want to import some war materials or something else, therefore they want export exchange. So they are sacrificing the convenience of the local people for export exchange. These things are going on. These politicians, they create an atmo
... Therefore I say the head of the state, they must be clean. But they are all motivated. Therefore the whole world is in chaotic condition. Generally politician has got a particular motive behind him. And when he cannot pull on they declare war. That
Pakistan. Pakistan, since the beginning of Pakistan they could not make any economic condition very sound. But when the people are too much agitated, they declare war with
India. The whole attention is... And they have been educated in such a way that India is their strongest enemy.
Anything Indian, they dislike in Pakistan. So this is going on by the politicians. They are creating situation because they are not honest, they are not clean. And a clean man cannot become politician. Mr.
Lloyd George said that "consistency by the politician is the qualification of an ass." There cannot be any consistency amongst the politicians. So that is the defect, that the politicians are the heads, the leaders of the society, and they are in disagreement.
Everyone has got his own ideal, and the fight is going on, and the poor man in the state, they are suffering. Just like in India they partitioned, Pakistan and
Hindustan. It was arranged by the leaders,
Jinnah and
Jawaharlal Nehru. Especially Jinnah.
The people are suffering. And the
Britishers made partition in such a way that they will remain continually in war because everyone wants the necessities of life. The foodstuff is in Pakistan, and the industry is in India. So the Pakistan will suffer for want of industry, and India will suffer for want of food. This is
British plan for partition. They had no business to divide the country, but they wanted to do it as a parting kick, that "You want independence. You will have independence, but you will remain perpetually in war." That was British policy.
None of them are benefiting. Occasionally they are fighting and losing so much money and men, that's all, a political game. Similarly,
Germany is divided.
Ireland is divided. This is going on.
People are fighting, fighting, fighting.
Leaders should be so sober and honest that the people should live peacefully, without any anxiety, without any want. That is the duty of the leaders to see. Perpetually they are in want, in scarcity, not in
peace of mind, full of anxieties. In India especially, we see, the economy is so unsteady. The money value is decreasing every day.
Nobody knows what will be tomorrow.
Rice is selling today at two rupees kilo, tomorrow, three rupees, next day, four rupees. Where is the income is coming? Therefore there is strike, railway strike. So this is the mismanagement. They cannot guarantee. At least in
England I have seen that... Or why the England?
In America also, the people are happy in this: they have got enough foodstuff, no scarcity. You see? India is in always scarcity.
Goods are there. It is hoarded by somebody else. He will not let loose. He will not... Many goods are there, sufficient.
The government stock. The government stock because the black marketeer, they have got some arrangement. So many things are going I don't wish to discuss. It is due to unclean politicians, unclean head of the department.
Things are so mismanaged, and people are suffering.