NEHRU REBUKES INDIANS
“ HONOUR ABROAD AT , LOW EBB” NEW DELHI, September 39. Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India, addressing a public meeting, said that Indians, by trying to make India purely a Hindu State, were giving virtual victory to the Moslems. “You should not accept principles which in the past you vehemently opposed,” he said. (Congress originally rejected partition.) Pandit Nehru said that his head hung in shame when he thought 6f his countrymen’s inhuman acts. “We fought nobly and successfully in our fight against the British, but as soon as we gained our freedom we started fighting among ourselves in the most dishonourable manner,” he said. He declared that the Indian Government’s resources, which should have been spent in making a richer country, were now being exhausted in preventing people from killing each other. He had heard from India's representatives abroad that India’s honour was at a low ebb.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25303, 1 October 1947, Page 7
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