RULE OF INDIA

Grey River Argus, 23 November 1942, Page 2

RULE OF INDIA

A New Plan BY INDIAN IMPERIALIST. (Rec 10.20.) BOMBAY, Nov. 21. A new plan for the settlement of the Indian problem, including the abolition of the British Cabinet office of Secretary of State for India, is announced bv Sir S. Sapru, He has also urged that a complete-ly-Indianised Executive Council should be established, one working collectively, and responsible to the Legislature, or at least to the Crown, through the Viceroy. Sir S. Sapru suggested that the Viceroy’s position should be enhanced into tljat of a Minister of State, with a permanent seat in the British Cabinet, during the war, and. also with representatives in both British Houses of Parliament. ) (Rec., 11.0.) NEW YORK, Nov. 21. The! “New York Times” reports: Zafarulla Khan is the leader of an Indian delegation to a Pacific Conference which is meeting in Canada in December. He has arrived in New York. He told an interviewer that he was convinced of the sincerity of the British offer to establish a free India after the war. He added: “It is now for political parties in India to achieve a settlement among, themselves?’ He concluded’ “India has delivered so many goods to Britain that the total of Indian sterling debt will be Paid off in 1943. Surelv that is not the picture of. a country held in reluctant bondage ? Our fate and good will are linked with the United Nations.”