INDIANS IN THE DOMINIONS.
MR SASTRI ON HIS MISSION. (By Cable—Prr&s Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Ca.blo Association.) DELHI, November 28. Mr S. V. Srinivasa Sastri, interviewed regarding his mission, said he was not fully satisfied, and never expected to be sq. Public opinion in the Dominions had been so long adverse to Indian claims, or so luke-warm, that immediate results were not fcasiblo. There was very genuine sympathy in the Dominions he visited, and this would probably take definite shape in the future.
'' Omitting the question of franchise, our countrymen are not suffering any great hardship from a material point of view; They are doing very well indeed. Economic considerations form the chief obstacle in the path of Indians to the attainment of full political status, not the colour bar. • Another leading obstacle is the disinclination to the public to discriminate in favour of Indians against Japanese or Chinese. This impression was cou» firmed by the general testimony of Indians residing in the Dominions."
Mr Sastri found New Zealand most sympathetic. There the Indians enjoyed even the franchise.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17625, 30 November 1922, Page 7
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