SIMLA CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 25522, 28 June 1945, Page 5

SIMLA CONFERENCE

A FURTHER ADJOURNMENT CONGRESS LEADERS HAVE LONG TALKS LONDON, June 27. The third session of the Simla Conference adjourned after an hour's sitting, and will meet again to-day. The Punjab Premier, Hyat-Khan, talked with Sir Edward Jenkins, Lora Wavell's secretary, who is one of the conference secretaries, before the session opened. The Congress leader. Dr Azad, and nine members of the Congress talked for . more than an hour before going to the conference. Reports on the discussion with Mr Jinnah were read, and decisions reached on tho action to be taken by Congress at the conference. VICEROY ACCLAIMED HOPES OF SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME (ißec. 11.58 a.m.) RUGBY, June 27. The Simla conference is reported to have accepted the principle that the council's first task should be to prosecute the war against Japan with the utmost energy until Japan is utterly r defeated. ~•' " Comment on the conference by the newspapers of India includes the statement by the British-owned newspaper ' The Statesman.' The conference has so (far displayed no acerbity, and the Viceroy has been •. acclaimed by all sides "as an ideal chairman, _ who handled the discussions with fairness, frankness, and firmness." . The Congress Party organ, the 'Hindu Times,' says the greatest factor in favour of a settlement is publio opinion, which demands that all parties should show accommodation of spirit, and-that the present talks must lead to a settlement. AGA KHAN'S INTERVENTION APPEAL TO GANDHI AND AZAD (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 27. " Viscount Wavell's conference has been adjourned to Friday. During the interval Congress and the Moslem League will try to reach an adjustment on the exact quota to be allotted Congress, the Moslem League, and other interests .in the Viceroy's Executive Council. A cable received from the Aga Khan, at present in East Africa, addressed to Mr Gandhi and Dr Azad, urged Con-

gress to take the lead in the final solution of political differences in India, including the problem of the Indian States. The Aga Khan asked them to consider the constitution for an Indian commonwealth of nations " based on a union of hearts and interest, not a majority by force." He added that the first step towards the establishment of a world union of Moslem majority provinces in the west and the united Ben-gal-Assam block in the east was a federation of Indian States in groups, then their entrance into a great confederation. Tho proposals concern an interim period only.