INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23314, 25 September 1945, Page 5

INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA

Congress Demand BOMBAY, September 24. The full committee of the AII- - Congress adopted by an overwhelming majority the Working Committee’s resolution on the new British proposals declaring that India would not be satisfied with anything less than independence, 'the All India Congress Committee also passed a resolution demanding the release of all members of the Indian National Army awaiting trial. It demanded that those already sentenced to death should not be executed and added that all those arrested should be treated as combatants and prisoners of war. Pandit Nehru declared that if vindictive punishment was meted out to members of the National Army, however misguided they bad been, it would have repercussions throughout India, al~o through the British Indian Army. Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (Secretary for India), in a speech in Ic’-'don. said he was neither disturbed nor disheartened by the Indian response to the British declaration of policy. He added that the declaration was not in itself a solution of India’s complex politjcal problems, but was the opening of the road along which Indians could travel to self-government.