INDIA'S TWO DANGERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 221, 18 September 1942, Page 2

INDIA'S TWO DANGERS

3'' 1 Al s| ' : 1 ■ I P' l ne-e force.-, occupy Burma, and they are unlikely to 11 ■' iiiM.il longer if tliev decide that an advance would have •' r ' 1 ' •' ! • 11 '''' I 1 " I" < ' "I ac|i , x nil' at lea -t limited objectives, the political ' ''"'' 1 "" bccoin,.. one oi' nureasing concern to all the United ,V5,11,, ' !l ' • 01"|,,. no other coiiiitr\ threatened with invasion has 1"" 111 1 ' ■' 1 ' ' 1 1 "11 oiuci 1 His "tnili column' than India contains to-day. <l '" 11 "' h I ''' '1 '' dau"er given in the report that eight persons luiVl ' h, ' r " ■'aicnccd to death lor the murder of a man -who refused I 'l''. v wi'li .1 I c<{ lie t t li.it lie recall Ins brother from the army."' lr 11,11 ;i """'l" 'a rrn '! to ,-tii h lengths, to suborn Indian soldiers VVll ' •••" I'' India I 11 he completely defenceless. It would " INI 1 0111111 ei cd iii in within. '1 lie C.uvcrnnient of India cannot 1,0 n ""' r lh,l!l u it. - ' the utmost severity, ail such attempts to undei 111, lie the di CciH e lorce of the country. ;' V:,i I'l'i' "f Hie whole iiiuvenient to creite what may justly V 1 ' W I '' ' l,r India is inescapably nceessarv, ! , u " ' Tl "' lv K "inch lood for reflecti. n in the reports 1,1 lul 'p 01 Indian.; out .ade I lie ('ongrcss party, men whose patriotism '' 1 11 1 •' ""I nif and who must lully appreciate the gravity of India's !V 1 " I '''' ■ '""'H"" 1 '<■ press proposals for the establishment o'f a national 1" \c■ 1 n 11 1 en t Owing to the dominating influence exerted by Mahatnia ' l uillneiue which is perhaps greater when be is imprisoned nan when lie is iree, such proposals can hardly have ain uselul result. ' V! i s imprisoned, and it is reported that. 1 11 '1 o\ ha- icliiscd permission lor him to be Consulted. In view !' 1l '" 1 lh;i ll , 1 " l ' ( ' lh; "' s,, ven hundred people have lost their lives, j". " u "\ '"ore have been injured, in disturbances lor which (iandhi " 1 shale ol llie res| ion.-i hi 1:1 y, the Yicerov's attitude is not . <l"e,t lonable Whether it can In' maintained. Can M^ ' Imm 11! ( t»1 illlll an h;1 .> 111 mt khi ;i > \\*<»\ll(l lie l;r;i\c!\ < 1 i>r]uict inir rVl '" 111 P'-.-M el line. .Hid also enable Conceal Wa\e!! to oiler a decisive u ' l | '' 11 " 1 ' (l | 11"' external enemy.' Could the situation be improved or '""-'"I he made w_or.se, b.v permuting a fresh approach to the 1 "'""'■il problem.' These are quest; lis whi'li, u!t nnatelv. must be decided by the (.ovcrnincnt in the I' nit cd Kingdom. Ipoti the answer lh " IM " l;iv 'lepcnd not Oiil.v the immediate future of mdia but the J' 01 "'- 0 1110 VViU - 1- ' L,W responsibilities; so heavy have fallen upon anv