INDIAN GOVERNMENT

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4731, 10 August 1935, Page 5

INDIAN GOVERNMENT

NATIONAL CONGRESS DIVIDED.

ON POLICY TO BE FOLLOWED.

(Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.20 a.m.) London, August 9.

The Times' Simla correspondent says that Indian politicians and Indian owned newspapers are vigorously discussing the possibility, following the King's assent to the new Constitution, of exhibit ; ng a realism policy in current Indian journalism and abandoning partisanship, which hitherto has maintained that the measure was drafted solely in British interests.

While Mr. Gandhi remains aloof and silent, the Congress Party is sharply divided on the question whether Congressmen should accept office in view of the many important leaders hitherto willing to become Provincial Ministers.

The Congress Executive recently refused to make a decision on the matter, accordingly the outcome rests upon the delegates by an open vote at the next Congress gathering. European Expansion Condemned. Indian opinion strongly condemns Mussolini's land grabbing policy, while there is a lesser general indictment of the European policy and the "Christian countries' expansionist aims." Critics consider that the British lead is hesitant in the face of the fundamentally racial crisis affecting the coloured peoples throughout the world.