POLITICAL CRISIS

Grey River Argus, 29 November 1946, Page 5

POLITICAL CRISIS

INDIAN CONGRESS FEARS That Britain will Placate Moslems (Rec. 7.15) LONDON, Nov. 28. Saying that there is general regret that the Congress Party has declined the invitation to London the Times Delhi correspondent explains that the Congress attitude is governed by a belief, firstly, that no scheme of constitutional progress can be implemented unless it is acceptable to the Congress; secondly, that the Congress has gone to the utmost limit to placate and safeguard Moslem interests; thirdly that the British Government, having avowed its intention to quit India, and having put forward a plan which the Congress has accepted, have no business now to interfere again, and to bolster up the Moslem claims, which impede the country’s advance to independence. That being so, it is highly likely that the next few days will see India swept by a wave of resentment and of agitation against what the Congress sympathisers will regard as the “appeasement” of the Moslem League and the “sabotage” of progress already made by Mr Nehru and his colleagues. The Moslem League, on the other hand, acclaims the latest move as an evidence of belated good sense •on Britain’s part, and welcomes it. A political crisis may not occur immediately, but the atmosphere will certainly be vitiated as charges and counter-charges are exchanged.