INDIA AND S. AFRICA

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1944, Page 5

INDIA AND S. AFRICA

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS

NEW DELHI, November 7.

The Legislative Assembly has recommended. that India enforce economic sanctions against South Africa and recall its High Commissioner from the Union as a reprisal Tor the South African property laws which discriminate against Indians. Last week the Government of India imposed on South Africans in India disabilities similar to those imposed on Indians in South Africa, and stronger measures are being considered by the Government, whose Assembly spokesman (Dr. N. B. Krare) said: “I wish India was in a position to declare war on South Africa. If it had been so, I would have lost no time in taking an army there.” Dr. D. V. Deshmuk, a member of the All-India National Congress, said: “Even in this war Indians have shed their blood to save South Africans. I wish very much that the Indian regiments which knocked the macaroni out of Mussolini could be sent to drive some sense into the South African whites. The Inidans were completely cajoled into going to South Africa •generations ago for exploitation by the white settlers. The Raj—and in this I include all my colleagues and the Viceroy—have been as amazed as this House and my countrymen have been at the Union Government’s action.”