GANDHI’S OFFER REFUSED
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 17
The Congress Party lender. Air. Gandhi, has written to the Viceroy of India saying (hat he is prepared Io “advise the working committee to declare that, in view of the changed conditions, the mass civil disobedience envisaged by the resolution of August, 1912, cannot be offered, and that full co-operation in the war effort should be given by members of the Congress Party”, provided a declaration of immediate Indian indpendonce is made and a “national Government responsible to a central assembly is fo-med.”
'The hitter requirement is subject to (ho provision that during the war military operations should continue as at present without involving any financial burden on India. The Viceroy replied, reminding Mr Gandhi that while the British Government is most anxious for the settlement of the Indian problem proposals such as (hose put forward by him are quite unacceptable.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 277, 19 August 1944, Page 7
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