“ONLY BEGINNING”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22447, 30 September 1947, Page 3

“ONLY BEGINNING”

INDIA’S TRAGEDY CHURCHILL CRITICAL PALESTINE POLICY LONDON. Sept. 28. "I am not surprised at the fearful massacres in India,” said Mr. Churchill in a 'speech. “We are only, at the beginnings of these horrors and butcheries, perpetrated with the ferocity of cannibals, by races capable of the highest culture who for generations, have dwelt side by side in general peace .under Britain’s broad and tolerant rule. I qahnot doubt there will come a retrogression of civilisation throughout these enormous regions, constituting one of'the most melancholy tragedies Asia has ever known.” Mr, Churchill said that probably half the exertions which , the British had made to maintain British rule in Palestine would have maintained the orderly development and transition of India, r “Five times as many troops are concentrated in this tiny Palestine than are assigned to the tasks in the Indian Empire of 400,000,000. Such a lack of proportion has rarely been exposed. I trust we will quit Palestine as soon as possible. ' , “The Government. in the last two years has wasted £150,000.000 and the services of 100,000 men in Palestine which has‘gained us nothing but illwill in every quarter of the world.” CHURCHILL CRITICISED (10 a.m.) NEW DELHI, Sept. 29. Mr Gandhi, in a statement at his prayer meeting, said Mr Churchill, by his references to India in his London speech, had rendered a disservice to Britain.