DISCONTENT IN INDIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24816, 5 March 1946, Page 5

DISCONTENT IN INDIA

Success of Cabinet Mission Vital

WARNING GIVEN BY NEHRU

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BOMBAY. March 3. . po , lltlcal earthquake of devastaWould SWeep the entire * f . the miss >on of British CabfaHla I 1 due ln India this month i^ lled . , solve India’s pressing problems. said Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ln <4 a s P ee . ck a t Jinsi. The discontent and mood of revolt E???‘!? s . ted in Bombay, Calcutta, and Karachi are not limited to the cities, put are found in the remotest villagfs\ said Pand it Nehru. T J- n N ® w Delhi the president of the All(Dr Maulana Azad) -aid that the struggle of .Congress against the Government was in abeyance until there was a refusal to transfer power. There should be willing co-operation between the tempor4if* v ,p o Y ernr nent and the people on the food front, which was India’s immediate concern, he said. Strikes, a< monstrations, “hartals” (“cease work ’ action), and processions should not be held. IT Ti } e , British Ambassador to the United States (Lord Halifax), who is a iermer Viceroy of India, writing for the Foreign Policy Association publication under the heading “Restless Inqia, says that Britain cannot grant independence to India until responsible government is established. “Indian self-government is possible ? n u res P ons *bility passes directly to the hands of an Indian Government accepted by those whom it aspires to c-V e and a^e to hold together the State framework while the machine is run * n ’” Lord Halifax writes, we may have to wait some time before we see India’s new Constitution finally established.

Both British and Indians during the trying time of waiting will need all vhe goodwill and patience they can muster if the new vessel is not to be shipwrecked before it is launched.”