"ATTEMPT FAILS"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1945, Page 5

"ATTEMPT FAILS"

INDIAN CONFERENCE

Vain Effort To Form Centra

Government

Rec, 12.30 p.m. SIMLA, July 12. rn™ rn Sl oform a new Central Government by agreement between f£iL mam Parties-has unfortunately failed, says The Times Simla corres- ?£? UK T^ e Poetical leaders will W?£ le , at t he Yice-Regal Lodge on. rda ? ™ hen it is expected that Wavell will make a statewS w l nd , m S up the conference, winch broke down because Mr Jinnah, President of the Moslem League, laid claim to all of the five Moslem seats for the Moslem League. The Viceroy was prepared to concede him four, reserving one m an independent Moslem. There will be great disappointment in nationalist India at the lailure to agree, particularly in view of the Congress party's unusually conciliatory attitude, says the correspondent. The Moslem League for once in a while will have taken the responsibility in the public eye for holding up India's political progress, although the British will come in for a good deal of nationalist criticism if their offer is not made available to those parties which are willing to co-operate. The root of the trouble is, of course, the Hindu-Moslem controversy over India's future—whether, when the British depart, it shall be one or two Indias.