INDIAN CONGRESS

Grey River Argus, 1 May 1942, Page 5

INDIAN CONGRESS

Leaders’ War Attitude (Rec 12.10.) ALLAHABAD, April 30. Dr. Azad, Indian Congress President in a speech a session of all the Indian Congress Committee said: “It was not true to suggest that Sir. S. Cripps’s mission succeeded in changing the Indian leaders in their war attitude. The Congress had not changed its attituue to the -fundamental issue, namely, that only a free India could defend herself. > “We went to the limit in our efforts to secure a settlement,” he said, “but cknrly the British Government does not trust us.” He made it clear that the Congress would not make any further approach. but he added: “Our differences with Britain should not drive us into welcoming- Japanese or any other aggressor. If we welcomed Japanese invaders it would seal India’s fate as a slave country till Doomsday. The defence of India was a matter of national selfrespect.’’