GANDHI NOT HAPPY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 210, 2 June 1944, Page 5

GANDHI NOT HAPPY

Maintaining His Policy (Received June 1, 7 p.m.) LONDON. May 31. Mphatma Gandhi has authorized the publication of a letter which he wrote to Mr. Jayakar, leader of a non-party group, says the Bombay correspondent of “The Times.” It states: “The country expects much of me. I am not at nil happy. I feel even ashamed that I should have fallen ill. I tried not to, but Succumbed. I feel they will imprison me as soon as I am declared free of my present weakness, and if they do not arrest me what can I do? I cannot withdraw the ‘quit India’ resolution. As you properly said, it is innocuous. You may differ about the sanction. It is the breath of life for me.” Mr. Gandhi issued the letter because an allegedly garbled version was appearing in Indian newspapers. A demand for an all-party Government for India as the only means of securing the support of the masses for the war effort was voiced by the president of the All-India Trades Union Congress. Mr. S. A. Dange, in addressing a Press conference during a visit which he is making to Britain. "An all-party Government,” he said, “would make the fight against the Japanese easier and quickly finish the war. The mass of the people have been brought up in the past decade in anti-Fasc'st traditions, but they have not been in a position to put forward their full war effort, because they see that their national leaders are not at the helm of affairs.” Mr. Dange said that the workers’ conditions were horrible. “The cost of living is rising several points monthly, and if a compensating wage increase is not given there will be starvation," he said.