INDIANS NOT BLAMELESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 119, 20 April 1942, Page 5

INDIANS NOT BLAMELESS

MTt GANDHI ON REFORM

(Bee. 9.5 a.m.) BOMBAY April 19. Mr Gandlii, in an" article in the newspaper Harijan publicly expressed liis views on the Cripps mission. "It is a thousand pities that bntain tent proposals lor dissolving the political deadlock which on tlic lace ol them were too ridiculous to find acceptance anywhere. ..It is a misfortune that the hearer should have been Sir Stafford Cripps, who is acclaimed as a radical anions radicals and a iriencl oc India. We should at least have known that the Congress Party would not look at Dominion status oven though it carried the right ol secession. Sir Stafford Cripps knew, too that the proposal contemplated splitting jndia into three parts, each having different ideas of governance. It contemplated Pakistan (a separate Moslem State) and yet not the Pakistan •of the Moslem League's conception, and it gave no real control over defence to a responsible Minister. But it is of no use brooding over the past or British mistakes. Why blame the British for our own limitations? The attainment of independence is an impossibility until we have solved the communal tangle.''