1941-07-23 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 23, 1941.

MIITT AND JEFF.

WALKING IN HIS SLEEP

AGAIN, IS HE! JEFF!

WAKE UP!

Z-Z-Z

Z-Z

THE LITTLE GUY'S

THIS OUGHT TO WAKE

HIM UP!

A TIGHT SLEEPER!

SPLASH!

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

TEAM OF ABILITY

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AND EXPERIENCE

MR. L. AMERY, Secretary of State for India,

GANDHI in London last night described those who had join-

ed the Viceroy's Executive Council as a "team of ability and experience which it would be diffi-

UNMOVED cult to rival in India, or indeed elsewhere."

BY ACTION

They were, he declared, men with administra- tive, political and business experience and personal ability. The Viceroy's War Cabinet would be a very much stronger body for their inclusion.

THE MAHATMA GANDHI, IN AN INTERVIEW AT WARDHA.

They would, in the fullest sense, body of 'yes men',” said Mr TOLD REUTER THAT THE AN- NOUNCEMENT OF THE EX share in the collective responsib-| Amery. At

the a meeting of PANSION OF THE VICEROY'S ility and the statutory responsib- Council, members would be told EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND ity of the Executive Counell, as in confidence of the affairs which THE ESTABLISHMENT OF Awell as direct the important de- they would discuss with the NATIONAL DEFENCE COUN⚫partments which had been CIL DOES NOT AFFECT THE trusted to them. STAND TAKEN BY CONGRESS, The aim, said Mr. Amery, was NOR DOES IT MEET THE CON- | tô increase the efficiency of the GRESS DEMAND."

Government and to make full use and hitherto insuf- of the vast

ciently tapped reservoir of Indiau

en-

ability and patriotism. The mea- in the sures. "marking a change

Replying to a further question, he said: "I can at once say that I have no authority to prevent members of the All-India Con- gress Committee from doing any-spirit, if not in the letter of India's thing they wish to do.

"I'l authority given me by that Committee does not permit my interference with the fullest freedom of its members, and in) any case the body that gave me authority can, at any time, re-j fure it or withdraw it."

ler.

Reu-

Constitution" were an carnest of the British Government's desire to transfer to Indian hands a stend- ily increasing share in India's destiny.

Not "Yes Men"

The National Defence Council will be very far from being

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time

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13. To wash

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... opinion that'

17. To occur

10. Snakes

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cheer

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bird

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Viceroy and in turn put forward their own suggestions, After the meeting they would return to their own provinces and confer with their representatives.

In this way it was hoped there be- would be continual contact tween the Viceroy and his execu- one hand, and Pro- tive on the vincial or State Government, loca

and war com- war committees mittees or industrial organisations on the other.

Common Interest

of

Mr. Amery thought that ought to prove most helpful in guiding and stimulating India's war effort. "I cannot help hoping, that in the course of working together side by side, in the common interest India's safety and India's future. representatives in these bodies of men of every political com- plexion and community will be drawn closer. I hope they will find bonds of mutual understanding and sympathy that may immense- ly facilitate the solution of those very difficult inter-communal and inter-Party problems which are to-day the main obstacle to India's attainment of her rightful posi- tion as a free and equal member in the British Commonwealth."

Twenty-Two Named

Twenty-two representatives from British Indla on the Deferice Council have been named. Repre- sentatives of the Indian States will ' all be Princes with the possible exception of Hyderabad and the Viceroy has invited them to sit in rotation of nine at each meeting.

British India representatives in- clude one woman: "the Begum Shah Nawaz, who was a member of the Round Table Conference and of the Joint Select Committee.-Reu- ter.

CULTURAL. COOPERATION-

The question of securing the cooperation of Dominion cultura) authorities in the work of the Bri- tish Council was under active consideration, the Foreign Under. secretary stated in the Commons. yesterday-British Wireless.

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