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1940

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 1940.

Paradox Of India: Mr. Edwin Haward

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On Outlook

THE PARADOX OF an India which fully sup- ports the war against Germany and yet, at the same time, largely refuses to co-operate or to assist in the formation of an Advisory War Committee compos- ed of nominees of British India and the Indian States was described in a press interview this morning by Mr. Edwin Haward, Adviser on Indian Affairs and Deputy Director of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Ministry of Information, shortly before he sailed for Singapore

enter the war on her

own ac-

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Informed opinion in India has

sors. India blamed Britain for ment was still responsible solely not supporting China against Ja- to Parliament through the Se- pan, Abyssinia against Italy. Re-cretary for India. publican Spain against Franco, and Czechoslovakia at Munich.

Yet, although the Congress Party was manifestly in sympathy with the declaration of war against Germany last year, the Party has now broken with the Government and certain of its members are even now courting arrest and imprisonment.

was

Why? Firstly, because Con- For making fast to Admiralty buoys on Saturday, two junk-gress Party resented the fact that mistresses were each fined $5, or India's entry into the war

not left in her hands; India en- seven days' imprisonment, by

tered the war automatically when Commander J. Jolly, Acting Har-

Unlike the Domin- bour Master, in the Marine Court Britain did.

not ions, however, India could this morning.

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called As a protest, Congress on the eight Ministries manned by its members to resign, Assam managed to form an alternative Ministry, but the other Ministries are now under the direct control of the

Governors, assisted by specially sppointed advisory bodies.

Congress Adamant

Efforts were (and are being) made to reconcile the differences, the Viceroy interviewing a large number of Indian leaders in an effort to surmount the impasse, the final suggestion being expansion of the War Cabinet to Include representatives

the of leading parties, with Dominion status for India as soon as pos- sible after war ended.

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Congress remained adamant. Through Mr. Gandhi, they asked for the right to carry their paci- point of flsm through to the

in making speeches or engaging

that other activities to enforce belief.

The Viceroy had to tell them that he was prepared to go as far as to treat them as conscientious ob- jectors, but beyond that he could not go.

They were asking for greater powers of free speech than is accorded Britons at Home in war-time.

This controversy has dangers, he em- Mr. Haward said, but phasised that the present dispute is purely a local one; Congress itself is of this opinion.

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Indja's determination the Axis beaten is unchanged, and from one point of view the pre- sent controversy might be strued as a healthy sign, as would seem to indicate that Con- gress is quite certain that Britain is going to win and feels that the present domestic dispute will not as to assume proportions such hinder the prosecution of the war against Germany and Italy.

Not Lack Of Men

Mr. Haward also stressed fact that is perhaps not common- ly appreciated--that while small sections of India's mighty: people are still barely out of the bow- and-arrow stage and only 95 out of 1,000 are. Uterate, India has men who could take senior

posts anywhere in the world whether in the field of commerce, law, government, the arts or poll- tical controversy.

Some of the world's greatest orators, poets, artists, Govern- ment officials and businessmen are to be found in India to-day, and it is not a lack of gifted men' that prevents India from assum- ing Dominion status right away.

Basically, there are the differ- έννο ences existing between the major parties the Congress Party. and the Moslem League to settle, not to mention the 50,000.000' "un touchables" and the 65,000,000 people in the Indian States, which in general have their own more or less autocratic rulers (includ- ing the richest man in the world). and whose, inhabitants are the subjects of their rulers. The rights of all these must be protected.

The inextricable mixture. rncès, religions and civilisations presents a terrific problem w the sudden withdrawal of the British from India would not solve...

He reiterated that the present dispute is an internal, one, ... and with time will be solved. As far as external affairs particularly the war with the Axia-are con- cerned, Indian is backing Britai for the Indians know that. If BTL- tain loses their, chances of ince hieving Independence are “pract tically, mily