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WAR EFFORT: MR. AMERY ON THE FUTURE

SPEAKING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY MR. L. M.'S. AMERY, SECRE- TARY OF STATE FOR INDIA, RECALLED INDIA'S GREAT PART IN THE LAST WAR WHEN SHE PUT OVER A MILLION AND A HALF TRAINED MEN INTO THE FIELD FIGHT ON MANY FRONTS.

India would for many years have to rely on the

British framework in the army and air • force,

It was inconceivable that these forces could be put at the dis- TO Hive responsible to a legislature posal of an entirely new execu-

clected for a very different' pur- ' pose.

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India could do it again provided equipment was there. There was no scarcity of recruits, indeed some 25,000 of those who had offered themselves had to be temporari ly put off while the announcement of 300 va- cancies in the Indian Air Force Reserve at tracted 18,000 applications. All these were volunteers.

He regretted that Congress had

power and responsibility.

real

Congress Opportunity rejected a great opportunity of There was still, however, nothing to prevent responsible leaders in India thinking out among them- selves the terribly difficult and complex problem of India's con-

stitution.

"We are only too willing and welcome to promote any such

-The expansion of India's war effort, how-problem," Mr. Amery declared. ever, depended and would continue to depend The Main Issue on equipment.

on

was cer-

Discussing the moral and spiri- tual aspect Mr. Amery sald Outlining what India had hand and it was hoped to train the main issue there already achieved and intended to an Additional 10,000 men in tainly no divergence among lead- achieve in expending her fight- the next few months.

ers of Indian opinion whatever ing forces, Mr. Amery said the, In addition a supply of other differences there might be. Army in India consisted in competent instructors would be

of peacetime of 160,000 of the In- sent to India while young Indian They knew that the defeat

Empire and the dian Army and 15,000 British workers would be brought to Eng- the British troops but was now being ex- land to work side by side with victory of the Dictatorships would panded as a first step to a force British workers s0 that hey leave India defenceless against something like 500,000 men of could learn the most up to date inevitable aggression from every all arms, trained, equipped and methods as well

or by as something quarter, by land by sea mechanised on a modern scale. of the spirit of British Industrial air.

organisation as displayed in its

They knew more. They knew As the first step over 100,000 cooperation with the war effort. It would mean the end of all recruits had already been taken

their cherished hopes of con- on, of whom a targa propor.

stitutional progress within in- tion by now were fully trained.

dia, and in India's relations to Advanced Training

the outside world

Mr. Amèry finally answered Some of the criticisms made in debate about political suspects in India, especially arising from Government's decision as an-

Mr. Amery spoke appreciative- ly of the generous contributions to the British war effort which from poured in spontaneously Indians in every walk of life,

A new Officer Cadet Corps for nounced earlier. both Indian and British cadets The British White Paper-offer, had been established and there he affirmed, was not made in had been a continued multiplica-half hearted or tentative sense.

schools tion of

for advanced Even if the Independence of from ruling princes to working.

India was declared to-morrow men,-Reuter. training in all branches of mili- tary knowledge and the use of new weapons.

The mechanical transport of the Indian Army too had been brought up to from 5,000 to 32,- 000 vehicles, a figure which would

be doubled next year,

Of this force 60,000 were already serving overseas.

from

Gurkha fighting men Nepal had come to India's aid.

Turning to the Indian Air Force, Mr. Amery said Indians take naturally to flying and only more urgent demands elsewhere prevented the development of an air force comparable with the army.

The Royal Indian Navy "was, also being expanded,

Industrial Resources

Concluding, Mr. Amery gave detalls of India's great Industrial resources.

Apart from a great export traffle in war material, she made riiles, guns, munitions and equip- ment of all sorts.

Of 40,000 Items needed for the equipment of her army sha Had already supplied more than half but there was still abundant room for further 'ex- pansion, which was being' car- riad 'outi D

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