Washington Star/Evening Star

LIECHTENSTEIN.-I know it s hard to remember exactly where it is. But it exists, calm and exquisite-just east of Zurich and Tresonier, which looks down on the Rhine, sits by the little ski resort recently made fashionable by the Prince of Wales and his sister, who went there to learn how to ski.

Skiing is the most egalitarian of sports, in that it renders ungainly its novitiates notwithstanding the color of their blood. in England there is a great debate going on over the question whether Her Majesty should get the extra couple of million dollars she had requested in order to continue to perform her duties in the traditional way. Her principal critic is Richard Crossman, the indomitable socialist editor of the New Statesman, who, however, distinguishes his position from that of the anti-monarchists. He is, to begin with, a royalist. More, he does not want his queen to go about on bicycles, like the Scandinavian monarchs. He wants her in skirts, surrounded by plumed guardsmen and chariots and gilt and the rest of it, though he does believe that she could afford to continue in the royal manner using her money, not England's, and that is what they are talking about in England.

There are the darker subjects being discussed. The spectre of Willy Brandt's Real-politik. The larger implications of Sen. Mike Mansfield's recent proposal to demand that U.S. troops be withdrawn from Europe. The fate of the United States dollar. The coming Soviet hegemony in the Mediterranean.

In Europe, the concern is far greater than in America over the developments in India and Pakistan. As regards this particular disaster, there is the additional moral humiliation being felt in England that much of the suffering is the conscious policy of a country whose reigning spirit, Pandit Nehru, brought so many Westerners to their knees during his lifetime, bowled over by his simple, un-technologized benignity. It is his daughter who now presides over the holocaust.

Listen to the disillusionment. The following paragraphs are from a column by the editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Peregrine Worsthorne:

"If the British raj still ruled in India, the dreadful human tragedy that now darkens that subcontinent would not be taking place . . . It was of course always understood that in the immediate aftermath of the white man's withdrawal there would be an awkward time of adjustment.

". . . Hitherto this has been conceived as mainly a problem of poverty, to be met by furnishing economic aid through agencies like the World Bank. But the agony of Ben-gal today, like the agony of Biafra a year ago, has very little to do with the problem of poverty. It does not result from material deficiency or technological backwardness, fit objects for sympathy and charity, but from terrorism and oppression which spring from moral deficiency and human savagery, to which the normal Western reaction would be fierce indignation and anger.

". . . The white man's immense material superiority, in short, was qualified by a feeling that this was really nothing to boast about; almost the opposite. indeed, the moral advantage has rested with the coloured world, which succeeded in presenting Itself as poor but honest, innocently impractical, charmingly feckless, as against the white man's ruthless lust for power. This moral advantage exercised an astonishing influence in world affairs since the war.

". . . It is no crime to be poor and backward. indeed, the underdeveloped world has in recent years enjoyed a certain strength from this kind of weakness.

But to be poor and backward and morally repulsive as well-that is something very different! If Hitler had set up the gas ovens and practiced genocide from a posture of abject military and economic weakness, and had combined an attitude of outrageous moral provocation to the sensibilities of the Western world with humiliating material dependence on Its charity, how long would It have been before something was done to put an end to such a monstrous absurdity?"

" . . . It is not going to be enough to give material aid, since the problem goes much deeper than poverty. How can the World Bank cope with genocide?"