CONFIDENCE OF CONGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 11

CONFIDENCE OF CONGRESS

MANDATE FOR INDIA

CALCUTTA, 31st March. Mr. Gandhi has had his way. Th* All-India Congress voted solidly, ratifying his pact with the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, and appointed him head of tlis Congress Delegation to the resumed Bound Table Conference with a mandate instructing them to make an effort to obtain independence. A crowd of 50,000 listened to tlis polished oratory of Paudit Motilal Nehru, and others, advocating implicit faith in Mr. Gandhi, and even tha Bombay intractables were silenced when passionate speeches were inado by Dr. Alam, Dr. Kitchlew, and Mr. ,J« M. Sen Gupta. Mr. Gandhi has now one more task —that of bringing about peace betweea the Hindus and Mohammedans. Congress also . adopted a resolution! pledging support of the movement for the use of Indian-made cloth to the exclusion of foreign products. While recognising the right of thfli Burmese to claim separatijn from In* dia, Congress condemned Britain's proposal to force scpaxation on the Burmese and gave an opinion that this proposal was a plot to make Bnrma and Singapore, by reason of their strategic position and the presence of oil, th<* stronghold of Impel ialism in the East.