Arm the People of India
NEHRU’S SUGGESTION LONDON, April 20. “We want to convert India into au armed camp of the people, who will . continue to fight ev-en if the army eur- ' renders,” said Pandit Nehru, tho Congress leader, in a speech at Calcutta to-day. “If India is to be defended properly,” he added, “it can be done only by a combination of two forces—the State apparatus for defence and the people. “Indian non-co-operation with Britain would be an invitation for a Japanese invasion. “In India, it is absurd to call the war a people’s war. It is equally absurd to call it an imperialistic war. It is ultimately, for each country involved, a war or survival. “ British power in India is shaky in the extreme, and simply cannot survive,” Pandit Nehru asserted. “Almost a strong wind might blow it over.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 94, 22 April 1942, Page 5
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