INDIAN PROBLEM
CHANCES OF SETTLEMENT LEADERS MAY MEET AGAIN (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright.) (Rec. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. The chances are growing that a letter rejecting the British Mis- . sion’s proposals for an interim Government, which is lying ready in the Congress Working Committee offices, will be destroyed, says the “Daily Express” New Delhi correspondent. Everything hinges on whether the Moslem League and Congress are to have equal representation in the interim Government. While Mr Gandhi took his usual walk at 6 a.ni. to-day, he and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the bullet-headed iron dictator of Congress, decided that Congress in po circumstances would accept this principle. Patel saw Lord Wavell at 3 p.m., and did not mince his words when he spoke of a breakdown. Lord Waved warned that it would mean civil war.
Patel disagreed, but added that if it came they were ready for it, and could deal with it.
At 5 p.m. Mr Pandit Nehru called at the Vice-Regal lodge. He believes that a meeting between himself and Mr Jinnah might solve the deadlock. Another effort will be made to-niglit to arrange a meeting.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 206, 13 June 1946, Page 6
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