DISTURBANCES IN INDIA

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25301, 29 September 1947, Page 7

DISTURBANCES IN INDIA

PANDIT NEHRU WARNS OF CONSEQUENCES

PEOPLE HAVE “SURPASSED LIMITS OF MORALITY” (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW DELHI, Sept. 27. The Prime Minister of India (Pandit Nehru), at a public meeting, warned that acts like those committed in the Punjab and Delhi would, if continued, lead to complete disaster. The people during the last six weeks had gone completely mad. They had surpassed all the limits of morality and culture and had behaved like wild animals. India, which had held up the torch of liberty, justice, and fair play, had degraded herself in the eyes of the world, and for some time .to come could not hold her head high. India had fought against South Africa ip the United Nations General Assembly for the injustice done to Indians there; today she could not face her opponents jp the same way. Mr Gapdhi, at a Prayer meeting yesr terday, said that though he was opposed to all warfare, if there was no other way of securing justice from Pakistan, the Ipdjan Government would pave to go to war against Pakistan.

No one wanted war, but he could never advise anyone to suffer an injustice. He would not mind if all Hindus were annihilated for a just cause.

If war occurred, Hindus in Pakistan $? U W, be bttii columnists, said Mr Gandhi. They should leave Pakistan if their loyalty did not lie there. Similarly, Moslems, whose loyalty was with Pakistan, should not stay in the Indian Union.