BRITAIN'S HONESTY OF PURPOSE IN INDIAN SOLUTION

Evening Star, Issue 26154, 16 July 1947, Page 5

BRITAIN'S HONESTY OF PURPOSE IN INDIAN SOLUTION

Sir Stafford Gripps added that Britain, in the difficult days ahead, wpnlu he Teady and anxious to help with the benefit of her experience m way possible. “We salute the -new dominions’ leaders, who struggled ana suffered for the faith that was in them ■through long, hard years, e? fellow Worker? in the cause of peace and progress. May- the sun »now . iaslng> .on ■ their independence never set on vll® 1 ? freedom and prosperity,’- ■ Mr R. A. Butler , said the BIU could be regarded .a? satisfactory in most aspects, Britain had been true to herself, and strengthened rather than weakened her Imperial, am] world position. The decision on India had been almost unanimously approved in Amer}CJdr Butler said he trusted tjiat when jt became clear that any,lndian State desired to. maintain, its independence, the Government would'enter wto n--lation with that State, and/handle.the matter with sympathy and understands nR ' ARMY OOMMANPERS, A New Delhi message states that it is Jemried that the Indian OQvei'Rroent hjis invited General. Slim to he Corn* mander-in-Chief of the Army of the new Dominion of India. ■ ’ ' It is* also learned the Lieutenant* general Sir Frank Messervy, G.OA

(Rec. 1 p.tti.) LONDON, July 15. The Indian Independence BUI was read a third time in the House of Commons to-day without a division. In moving the third reading of the Bill, which creates the Dominions of India and Pakistan, Sir Stafford Gripps said this would be the last Commons debate on Indian affairs. The Biff would firmly and finally establish Britain’s honesty of democratic purpose, and do more to create a real living friendship with India than any action Britain had ever taken. Sir Stafford QrippiS welcomed India and Pakistan to the British Commonwealth. Everyone hoped that membership of the Commonwealth would help the new dominions to keep close to each Other, and that the time would come when their present bitterness and opposition would be engulfed in the single purpose of progress apd prosperity for all the people of the Indian Continent,

Northern Command, India, will he the first Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan army. The appointments ,will become .effective on August 15, when the dominions ore established-