INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25090, 23 January 1947, Page 7

INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE

FUTURE OF EUROPEAN OFFICERS COMPENSATION QUESTION DISCUSSED (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 22. The New Delhi correspondent of “The Times” says that the Under-Sec-retary of State for India (Mr Arthur Henderson) left by air for London on January 21 after a fortnight’s discussions with members of the interim Government -on the question of compensation for civil officers of the Indian armed forces whose services may be permanently ended for constitutional reasons. The discussions were exploratory and Mr Henderson will now report to the British Government on the attitude of the Indian Government. • “It is believed that there is wide divergence of views between the two Governments on the issue, and it is noteworthy that besides official Nationalist objections to the compensation claims, these have had a uniformly hostile press throughout India,” says the correspondent. “The numbers involved in Mr Henderson’s discussions are approximately 1350 Europeans and 100 Indians in the Civil Services, and 1265 Europeans and 150 Indians in the armed forces. The Indians’ case is not altogether on all fours with the Europeans’, but they have hitherto presented a united front because many Indian officers are doubtful about their future under an independent India.’’