INDIA NEARING UPHEAVAL

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24798, 12 February 1946, Page 5

INDIA NEARING UPHEAVAL

VIEW OF AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT

POLITICAL BREW WARMED EVERY DAY

NEW YORK, February 10. “A newcomer to India who strives to form an objective, balanced picture of the tangled political problem, naturally hesitates to offer predictions, but one is compelled to state that the current attitudes and demands of India’s conflicting political parties are moving this unhappy country in the direction of a violent upheaval,” states the correspondent of the “New York Times” in a dispatch from New Delhi. “I present this conclusion only after the most careful weighing of the facts and arguments advanced by political leaders. Government officials and disinterested observers,” he continues. “Just as there is little common ground among the conflicting arguments on which the neutral onlooker can take stock of the situation, so there is little common trust and good will among the opposing factions that might point the way to a peaceful solution. “Everyone with whom I talked acknowledges the present explosive factors in the political brew, which is growing warmer every day. The most sanguine hope is that one side or the other will recede from the extreme views being publicised at present and permit a compromise. “An American businessman said that he had refused a remunerative commercial post with an Indian prince because he was getting out before the storm broke. The Moslem League talks freely of violence to implement its demands for Pakistan. A certain section of the Congress Party likewise calls for violence unless the British quit India promptly.”