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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 15, 1940.

FOR SOLUTION

OF INDIA PROBLEM

INITIATING THE debate on India in the House of Commons last night, Mr. L. S. Am- ery, Secretary of State for India and Burma, spoke on the background to the political con- troversy in India and the deadlock which had

led up to the recent statement by the Viceroy.

He said that the Government of India Act represented a remarkable feat of construc- |tive statesmanship on the part of Parliament.

So far as the provincial part of the Act was concerned, it came into operation and was still being worked successfully in four out of eleven provinces in India.

It was temporarily suspended; in the others even through purely extraneous causes.

of national life in India as whole.

Viceroy's Offer

The delays had afforded the oc- casion for the development of a volume of adverse criticism and The Viceroy's offer presented opposition in the face of which to Indian leaders an opportunity their enforcement could no longer to take an immediate, effective serve the purpose for which they and important part in the Govern- were originally intended.

ment of India and bringing their This opposition came from influence to bear on the conduct; different quarters in India and of the war without prejudice to was based on opposite reasons. the several political positions.

They would have committed The constitutional deadlock in themselves to nothing except to India was not one between work together in the present His Majesty's Government and emergency for the good of India concentrated- Indian opinion. and for the common cause in: His Majesty's Government was which they all believed. only one of the parties con- cerned.

Congress Party

"I still hope they will all be willing to take their part in spite of the discouraging at- ttitude shown in Congress quar- ters.

VICEROY'S

000001

TALKS WITH INDIA'S LEADERS

*The Viceroy of In- dia left Bombay for Poona yesterday after a four-day visit during which he granted in- terviews to several prominent political leaders including Mr. Bhulabhai Desai (Congress

leader), Mr. Jinnah (Muslim League), Sir Chiman- al Setalvad (Liberals)

Ambedkar and Dr. (Depressed Classes).. Mr. Jinnah had a second interview yes- terday in which he sought further clari- fication of the Viceroy's statement of last Wednesday. Reuter.

unfortunately, VICHY WAR

Mr. Amery then proceeded to If that should unfortunately, describe these parties and declared not prove to be the case, Lord that the Indian National Congress Linlithgow will, of course, still gol had built up a remarkable poli-ahead with those prepared to; tical organisation.

work with him and each other."

He said that Congress was by far the most efficient political nia- chine in India, of which they were justly proud,

Dominion Status

It

ON SECRET SOCIETIES

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

According to a decree inferior or dependent adopted by the Vichy

The Viceroy's immediate offer They had striven to make it was the paving of the way to- national and all embracing. If wards a speedier attainment, of they had succeeded and Congress the goal of Dominion status. could speak for all elements of was not--as was so often suggest-

ed-an Indian national life then, however advanced their demands, the pro-

status. {blem might have been very differ- lent and in many respects far

easier than it was to-day.

"Their claim to speak for India: is utterly denied by very im- [portant elements in India's com-

plex national life.

Many Independent

nations Council of Ministers, se were not free to live their lives cret societies of every de- as they wanted. They werd averrun or _more_powerful_neighbours,

dismembered by scription will be dissolved "We in the British Common-throughout France. wealth enjoy security, prosperity, The decree affects associations friendship and enhanced dignity whose activities are hidden from These other elements assert in the eyes of the world which is public knowledge. Property their right to be regarded not a result of our free and equal owned by such associations will as mere numerical minorities association.

be sequestrated and sold, the but as constituent factors In

"There is no higher status proceeds being turned over to any future. Indian polley, enti-

the world than that, and that public charity institutions. tled to be treated as such in any

the status we have declared to discussion for establishing. In- dia's future constitution.

Fines and prison terms will be be the goal of our policy in meted out for violation of this

India."

that

society or have severed their connection with it.

decree, while members of foreign In every case in the Dominions secret societies will be expelled. Moslem Community

there had been an antecedent! All public officials and state agreement between the main racial employees will be compelled to "Foremost among these stands elements-British and French in swear upon their honour the great Moslem community, Canada, and British and Boer in they never belonged to a secret 00,000,000 strong, and constitut- South Africa, for instance. ing

The proudest day in Britain's the majority In both north-west and north-east India history would be the day when but scattered as a minority over they see India joining as a freé the whole sub-continent.

and willing partner in the bro- "There is also a group of sche-jtherhood of the British peoples. duled castes who feel that as a community they stand outside the main Hindu body which is re- presentative of Congress.

"The Indian princes constitute another group of entities."

India's Unity

there! But underlying all that was unity. In no respect had the essential" unity of India's 'outlook{ been shown more clearly, than in the attitude of all parties and |[communities since the war began.

It was in this atmosphere that] the Viceroy felt the moment had come for initiative which should

Equal Footing

to

Before passing the decree, the Council of Ministers heard a report drafted by the Minister of Justice. "It would be inadmissable see any attempt at national re- covery hindered by organisations Replying to the debate, Mr. which are all the more danger- Amery said that new members ous since they remain hidden and of the proposed enlarged execu- enrol many members from the tive council would be on equal ranks of Government officials. footing with the present. members and whose actions too often par- and would hold definite port-alyse the Government's action," folios.

he said. Havas.

The functions of the War! Advisory Council would be to, collaborate 'Indla's experiance and special knowledge in "order

to advise the Government on the development and-stimulation of the wär offòrt,

He believed that both' Britain'

SNATCHER GIVEN

· GAOL TERM

Before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen

enlist all elements of political and India would contribute joint at Kowloon this morning, Lam effort and leadership behind In- efforts in order that there might Ming, 25, was sentenced to three dia's war effort and also make a emerge something of which both months' hard Inbour and ordered beginning in breaking down the Britons and Indians alike could to be expelled from the Colony deadlock and so pave the way be proud for generations to come. for snatching a handbag. towards at early solution,

Router. Accused snatched the bag from Miss Li Hin-ying when she was walking with a friend in Nathan Road last night.

The immediate offer contain-

The House then 'rose.

ed in the Viceroy's statement NATHAN RD. MISHAP wis that of an extension of hla' Council sö as to include the A six-year-old Chinese girl, Lo leading members of all political Sum, who was treated at the parties as well as the establish-Kowloon Hospital yesterday, for

Lo Chan-hung, 18, was admit- ment of a wider War Advisory|Injuries to her head and legs hud Council on an All-Indian basis, been knocked down by car No.ted to "Kowloon Hospital, after. mecoolating on the conduct of 4352 in Nathan Road near the being knocked down by car No. -war representativos of the In-Alhambra Theatre. The car was}009, driven by Mr. F. P. Lenfestoy

dian states and representative'driven by Mr. L. Martland. in Nathan Road yesterday,