BOLDER UTTERANCE
INDIAN DELEGATES
INDIA MUST BE FREE
(Received 20th November, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 19th November. In the course of an impassioned address to the Indian Bound Table Conference, Dr. B. S. Moonje referred to. his service in the South African War, and his volunteering for the Great War, although over tho age. He added: "It will bo a good thing if England can say of her own accord, 'We offer you Dominion status.' I want to be . free in India as an Englishman in England or an Australian in Australia. I.will not*'tolerate the saying that Indians cannot defend India, and therefore the British must, undertake the responsibility." Muhammad Ali referred to his internment in 1925, adding: "I only want to return to India, if I take the substance of freedom. Otherwise I will not go back to a slave country. „ I prefer to die in any free country. You will have to find me a grave here. If we go back without the birth of a new Dominion, it will be going back to a lost Dominion. I do not believe in Dominion status. I am committed to complete independence."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 122, 20 November 1930, Page 9
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191BOLDER UTTERANCE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 122, 20 November 1930, Page 9
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