UNION ADVISED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21925, 21 January 1946, Page 4

UNION ADVISED

BRITAIN AND INDIA

BASIS OF EQUALITY

BRITISH M.P.'S SUGGESTION (9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 20. Mr. Woodrow Wyatt, a member of the British Parliamentary delegation to India, declared that the idea of India’s status as a member of tne British Commonwealth did not fit n with the conditions as they ixistvl in India to-day, says Reuter’s correspondent in Bombay. “It is all right for countries like New Zealand, Canada, and Australia, with populations having British origin, to count themselves as part of tne British Commonwealth, but IndianBritish relations have to be viewed from an entirely different angle,’’ he said.

He believed the solution of India’s problems lay in the direction of an “Indian-British Union on the basis of complete equality.”

India was as much out of touch with England as England was with India.

Appeal for Princes’ Aid

The Chancellor of the Indian Chamber of Princes, the Nawab of Bhopal, in a statement to the chamber, urged those Indian States which had not already done so to adopt the constitution. He said the sovereign powers of the rulers should be exercised through regular constitutional channels.

The statement, which was made with the full authority of the chamoer, was delivered when a resolution was submitted stating that the Indian States fully shared the general desire for the immediate attainment by India of full stature and would make every possible contribution towards the settlement of the constitutional problem.

The Nawab of Bhopal said the States should have popular institutions with elected majorities to ensure the close and effective association of the peoples with the Governments.

CONGRESS PARTY HEAD (10 a.m.) NEW DELHI, Jan. 20. The Indian Congress Party has chosen Serat Chandra Bose, a brother of Subhas Chandra Bose, the leader of the Indian National Army, as the party’s leader of the new central legislative assembly which will meet on January 21.