NEW ACT ATTACKED
ANTI-CAPITALIST SPEECH
(Received December 28, 1.10 p.m.) j LONDON, December 27. J A message from Bombay slates that the president of the Indian National j Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru attacked j the Government of India Act and condemned modern Imperalism as a growth of' Capitalism remediable only by Socialism. He added that Indians would not be parties to an Imperialist war, nor allow exploitation of the man-power and resources of Indfa for such a purpose. Sixty thousand persons attended the congress. The Faizpur correspondent of "The Times" tstates that Nehru and his friends are attempting to constitute Congress on a proletarian basis, aiming at a Communist State, which members of the Right Wing have so far successfully resisted. Significance is attached to Gandhi's hint that he could solve the peasants' difficulties without class • warfare.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 7
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