RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN INDIA
N.Z. MISSIONARY’S VIEWS
(I J .AJ AUCKLAND, January 10. »If the tension arising from religious strife in India was not eased it was possible that the country would be plunged into civil war. This is the opinion of a New Zealander the Very Rev. T. E. Riddle, who has returned after some years’ missionary work in the Punjab. He is a former Moderator of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church.
He said that the Hindus were in a three to one majority, and the Mohammedans, fearing that they had not yet obtained their rights, were claiming that they were a separate nation and should have a separate government.
In a fight the Hindus “would go right through” the Mohammedans, he added. The feeling was no longer antiBritish. but intercommunal.
Talk of millions dying from starvation was a political stunt. There was a scarcity in some districts, but there always had been a scarcity somewhere. No one was dying of famine; it was simply that some politicians wanted to sell the story, he said.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25080, 11 January 1947, Page 2
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