ASIATIC IRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 5

ASIATIC IRE

INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA CHALLENGE TO GOVERNMENT BREACH OF PROMISE CHARGED (Rec. 11.35 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. Following a delegation to Fieldmarshal Smuts from the Indian Congress, the South African Indian Congress. after an all-night discussion passed a resolution to mobilise all resources and fight Field-marshal Smuts’s asiatic bills, and claim the right to a hearing at the United Nations Assembly and at the Security Council. , One resolution rejected the Smuts principle of segregation as repressive, and as a sacrifice of Indians “to _ appease the extreme white reactionaries, ’ and proposed sending a deputation to India seeking a round table conference between the Indian and Union Governments, failing which India would be asked to withdraw her High Commissioner and apply economic sanctions. Another resolution claimed the right to a hearing by the United Nations on the ground that the Union Government’s proposals were a breach of the oromise of equal treatment to be given to Indians when they were first introduced into South Africa. Also it was said to be a breach of the 1926 agreement between the Union and India.