The New Review July 1945

On the other side of the world the Allied forces drove the Japanese back from New Guinea and the Solmons the Admiralty Islands Saipan Morotai and Paleliu liberated Guam and the Philippines and struck at the Japaneoe homeland. [...] In this endeavour many have lost side of the elastic nature of the property concepts which take on different forms according to the objects of property the character and culture of their owners and according to the change of times and local conditions. [...] The 'loose' joint-family is distinguished from the joint-family in the proper sense of the word by the fact that the married sons lead with their families an independent economic life and are supposed to give only a certain amount of help to their parents (or parents-in-law) while in thg j infamily in the strict sense of the ord the head of the family is the sole nd B6 THE NEW REVIEW only [...] The pygmies all of them the North-Central Calfornians the Selish and the tribes of Tierra del Fuego consider the Creator himself as the real owner of the land. [...] The Creator so the p itives believe has granted them the ufruct12. THE NEW REVIEW of the earth and its products but has at the same time imposed upon them the double responsibility first the sparing and careful use of His goods and secondly an altruistic share of the same with indigent fellow-men.