INDIA MUST FIGHT
IN WAR OF SURVIVAL DECLARATION BY PANDIT NEHRU. NON-COOPERATION WITH BRITAIN SUICIDAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. “We want to convert India into an armed camp of the people, who will continue to fight even if the army surrenders,” said Pandit Nehru, in a speech at Calcutta. “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-opera-tion with Britain would be an invitation for a Japanese invasion. “In India,” he continued, “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 of survival. The British power in India is shaky in the extreme and it simply cannot survive. Almost a strong wind might blow it over.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1942, Page 4
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