COMMUNIST STATE IN INDIA

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21977, 29 December 1936, Page 7

COMMUNIST STATE IN INDIA

—+—_ Aim Of President Of Congress REFUSAL TO ENTER AN IMPERIALIST WAR (UHJTCD PRESS ASSOC] ATIOM—CUI'YIUGUT.) (Received December 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 27. The Faizpur correspondent of "The Times" says that the Pandit Jawharlal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, and his friends are attempting to constitute Congress on a proletarian basis, aiming at a communist state, which right wing members have sp far successfully resisted. Significance is attached to' Gandhi's hint that he could solve the peasants' difficulties without class warfare. At a gathering at Faizpur, the Pandit Nehru attacked the Government of India Act and condemned modern imperialism as a growth of capitalism which could be remedied only by socialism. He said that Indians would not be parties to an i imperialist war nor allow the exI ploitation of the man-power and resources of India for such a purpose. Sixty thousand attended the congress. GANDHI'S ADDRESS RETURN TO PUBLIC LIFE NOT INTENDED BOMBAY, December 27. Mahatma Gandhi broke his two years' silence by addressing a gathering of 10,000 at Faizpur. He said cryptically: "Show me the way and 1 am prepared to return to gaol. 1 am prepared to be hanged. If you do all I want you to do, the Viceroy (Lord Linlithgow) will say: T was wrong. I thought you people were terrorists, and if you like, we Britons will return by the next steamer.' We would then say to Lord Linlithgow and the Britons: 'lndia is big enough to hold you and more like you.' That is my swaraj." Gandhi concluded with a reference to being near his end. He denied later that his speech meant his return to public life.