INDIAN PROBLEM
MOSLEM INVITATION TO
. GANDHI
NEW DELHI, March 30,
Mr. ■ M.-A. Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, has invited Mahatma Gandhi to confer with him privately about the partitioning of India into Moslem and Hindu States.
Interviewed, Mr. Jinnah said he would be satisfied with Dominion status for Moslem India within the British Commonwealth. ..',•■■
"Mr. Gandhi, like "me, knows India is not ready for complete independence," he said.
The Congress Party's headquarters at Allahabad have ordered provincial organisations to enrol those who will .sign a pledge to join a civil disobedience ' campaign under Mr. Gandhi's conditions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 9
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97INDIAN PROBLEM Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 9
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