COMMONWEALTH AND INDIA
MR NEHRU STATES RELATIONSHIP
(Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW DELHI, April 9. The Prime Minister (Mr Nehru) reaffirmed today that India’s membership of the Commonwealth put no constraint or limitation on her and that the relationship “is not binding in the slightest, politically or economically.” He told the House of the People, the Lower Chamber of Parliament: “I think our being in the Commonwealth gives us larger freedom in international activity than otherwise, and we have to utilise it.” Mr Nehru was replying to the Communist group leader. Professor Hiren Mukerjee, who described the Commonwealth as “a racket” and demanded to know why India was contributing about £75,000 a year towards the expenses of the Commonwealth Relations Office in Britain. Mr Nehru said India’s membership of the Commonwealth was a good example to others of the type of relationship that should exist between nations. Their relations were closer with some countries outside the Commonwealth. India’s relations with Burma, for instance, were in many ways closer than with a Commonwealth country.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 9
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