INDIA’S CONSTITUTION

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1935, Page 7

INDIA’S CONSTITUTION

CONGRESS AND PRESS ATTITUDE. (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.I (Received August 10, noon.) LONDON, August 9. “The Times’s” Simla correspondent says: Indian politicians and Indianowned newspapers are vigorously discussing the possibilities following the King’s assent to the new constitution, of a unity rare in current Indian journalism, abandoning partisanship which hitherto has maintained that the measure was drafted solely in British. interests. While Gandhi remains aloof and sib ent, the Congress Party is sharply divided on tlie question of whether! Congressmen should accept office. In view of the many important leaders hitherto willing to become Provincial Ministers, the Congress executive recently refused to make a decision on the matter. Accordingly, the outcome rests upon the delegates’ open vote at the next Congress. Indian opinion strongly condemns Mussolini’s land grabbing, where underlies a general indictment of Euro-pean-policv and “Christian cOuntiiec expanionist aims.” Critics consider that the British lead is hesitant in face of the fundamentally racial crisis affecting the coloured peoples throughout the world.