HOW INDIA RECEIVED NEWS
MOSLEMS STILL WANT PAKISTAN
Congress Leaders Urge Co-operation
"Communal Hatred Greatest Enemy''
London, Feb. 23
• The president of the All-India Moslem League; Mr M. A. Jinnah, wt'o spoke in Karachi to-day, made no direct reference .to the British Government's decision to hand overpower to India by June next year. What he did. say indicated that the
attitude of the league was unchanged. "We will not yield an inch in our: demands for Pakistan," he stated. The suffering of Moslems in the recent communal disturbances in Bihar Province and elsewhere was proof, in his view. that they should have a separate state.
Members of oner Indian Parties have commented to-day on the British Government's decision. The Pi oniier c f the United Provinces, who is a member of the Congress Party Working Committee urged Hindu-Moslem co-operation and declared, "Let us not look back to the past but to the free India that is coming." Another speaker said that he thought, the greatest enemy of India to-day was not Britain but communal hatred which could be ended by a little more intelligence. A spokesman of the Indian Communist Party has attacked the British plans as an Imperialist manoeuvre to gain time. Here in London the National Council of the Independent Labour Party has stated that the Government's decision should c?*eate for the first time in India confidence in Britain's sincere desire for Indian independence.
"Wise and courageous" was the description by the leader of the Indian Interim Government. Mr Nehru, ,of Mr Attlee's statement on India. 'He added that the declaration of a definite date —-June, 1948 —for transfer of power had brought reality and. a certain dynamic quality to the situation in India.
"It is a challenge to all us Indians which we shall try to meet bravely," he said. The long period of conflict and ill-will .between Britain and India was ended. India looked forward to close and friendly relations with the British.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14299, 24 February 1947, Page 3
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