MOSLEM TERMS
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT DURING WAR BOMBAY, August 14. ! Dr. Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, stated in an interview that the Moslems were agreeable to join a provisional government for the duration of the war, provided, first, that they exercised an equal voice witfr the Hindus, and secondly, that Britain agreed to concede Moslem autonomy after the war. ( "Congress is not .only holding a pis-
tol at the British Government: it is also holding a pistol at me," he said. "We hope the British Government will not make concessions to Congress by sacrificing the Moslems. That would be the last straw for the Moslems. We will not submit to any-cen-tral government with a Hindu majority. We envisage the separation of Moslem India from Hindu India, Sind, Baluchistan, the Punjab, and the North-west 'Frontier Province forming a Moslem State or Dominion, and Bengal and Assam forming another,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 40, 15 August 1942, Page 5
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