RT. HON. S. SASTRI.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1922, Page 10

RT. HON. S. SASTRI.

I LEAVES FOE AUSTRALASIA. : sT.VIVS OK IXDLWs. ! M-l i uur mm Curn-p.iu.lcu: i i LONDON. Marrli 10. :. Tlip Kt. H"n. srinaranH Sartri ■ leaves London to-day after an absence of nine liionlhs from India. During that time fit' lni> acted as representative of hit , country at the Imperial Conference in J.on.lon and at- thp Disarmament Ooit-{■•ri-ncc in Washington. He will embark Rjj the Nalilerji at Marseilles on Friday inr-"Bombay, and lias accepted an invitation from tin , (Government of Indiu to proceed to Australia. New Zealand, and I'aimdii mi an important mission. He may l>l , in time to take some part in tlie spring session of the Council of State, and later he will po to the headquarters of the Servants of India Society at Pnona. rif n-hicli he is the head in accordance witli the nomination of the late Mr. (iokliale. He will then fen* days at liis.iinnic in .Southern India, and will emlmrfc »t Colombo for Australia". Me. has expressed his views on the THiicfiJs outstanding questions of Empire prioV , to hie departure, and on none of Ihese are liU views lliore noteworthy than that of the status of the Indians ■within the Empire. For in his forthcoming visit to tl(e Pacific, and later to Canada, this will above all subjects engross his time both in public aild in private. He will be in India no mofe than a fortnight, going on then to A'ustra-iiti. New Zealand, and < anmla to diseusa with the various "Prime .Ministers the position of Indians in those Dominions, and theu returning via the United States tn this country. where he is due in August or September. Mi\ Sastri"s views on (landlli are nf supreme interest at this moment. He .-ay* that if the Government of" thdia should feel the time had conn-when (iiindlii's :uiti-(iuveriimental ai'tivttlcx could no longer he allowed to ("ntinue. moderate Indian opinion would be compelled to range itself behind the Cov»rmnent. Tie ascribes the unrest in India to two main pauses — impatience with the slowness of the progress towards self ii'overnment. and disroiitelil with the coUtlliuaiiee of the war with Turkey, and inditrnatitm at the term? of the Treaty of Hevres. On the furmer of the two he has very delinite "If." lie said. •;!. British Parliament (mild be persuaded to give full autonomy tv tile several provinces, abolishing the iivarchv and putting full power into the hands of Indian Ministers, t.lie non-co-operation movement would flicker out anil disappear. I jealige the improbability of Parliament Iteiiijr willing at the present juncture to take such h step. i,in the [|e.inand of Itidja, tot a jrrfater nii'asurc of self-pftvei'iimeht than it enfoy* under the dynrehy systi-in will to lie satisfied'/" i\lr. Sastri, it should be noted, inakc-" Urifc deuuiud in respect, of the provinces, mil the Central ()o\'Srh!!ienb As reStaiils the latter,, whit'li sui-li national sefyirts "us defefice, railways, and te,letfra(ihS. lie is quite content to 'go' SlOAvly. not claimini; Iliaf India , sliotild at 'present enjoy in that spltej'd the full autonomy with \\*Wch tiunada and Australia are en ffivVed. Hie main reason is that full liiitiiiiion status is without eipiflcanee # tlie'tomtnalld of the military passes Ifo tlie hands of the Indians, and these ill take many years to traiit up, even jftfe he h&pes. T3ritaih loses no (lay in Jrttnjfctue Tndiimisation. He reco ? - L thfiieed of educating Hie eletftrate. Tout holds, none" the less, that a ffirtMl autonomy is Loth plUetifrable *ijl necessary. fin view of GandJii'e arrwt- and the »entn<*iie telegram tlfo Statemeht iS of triiiie importance. It is that of » 'BiUian who. while 11. full sympathy with iftis cdunti'y'K aspiration, yet recs tne of extremism.