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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 23, 1941.

INDIANS AGREE TO JOIN VICEROY'S NEW WAR CABINET

A WHITE PAPER ON “INDIA AND THE WAR,“ PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY BY MR. L. M. AMERY, SECRE- TARY OF STATE FOR INDIA, GIVES DETAILS OF THE PROPO- SALS UNDER WHICH INDIANS ARE TO BE ABSORBED IN THE VICEROY'S EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND MORE INDIANS ARE TO HOLD PORTFOLIOS IN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

It is hoped by this means to augment and consolidate India's war effort and it has the backing of most influential groups of Indian opinion.

The new members of the Executive Coun- cil are as representative of and as responsive to public opinion as the refusal of the Con- gress Party and the Muslim League to cooper- ate makes possible.

There

The White Paper announced a are ready to cooperate. decision to enlarge the Executive are 22 representatives of British Council in order to permit of the India on the Counci1.

eparation of the portfolios of Representatives of the Indian Law and Supply and of Com- States will, all of them, be Princes merce and Labour, and the divi- | with the possible exception **f sion of the present portfolios of Hyderabad. education, health and lanas, into The National Defence Council separate port olios of Education. will meet at intervals under the Health and Lands and Indians | Chairmanship of the Viceroy and Overseas, and also the creation the Council will on each occasion of portfolios of Information and receive a confidential statement Civil Defence.

on the war position und of the The Viceroy has also succeed - ¡ position in regard to supply ed in securing cooperation in the ettabilehment of a National De fence Councl! of distinguished | and representative Indians in British India and the rulers of the Indian States.

New Members

The new Member for Supply is Sir Hormusj! Peroshaw Mody, member of the Central Legislative Assembly. He was chairman of the Bombay Millowners Associa- tion and is director of the famous Iron and Steel firm of Tatas and Chairman of the Central Bank of India,

A War Cabinet

Though no constitutional change is involved in these announce ments and the enlarged Executive Council will not be responsible to the Legislature, the Viceroy will

The Member for Information is now have what, to all intents and Sir Akbar Hydari. He is a Privy purposes, is a War Cabinet with Councillor and until recently was

lic men

instead of the former bad's Executive Council. He was

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ARMISTICE CONTROL

IN SYRIA

Major-General John Chrystall has been ap- pointed chairman of the Armistice Control Commission in Syria.

Chief Vichy repre sentative is General de Verdillac, who was principal Vichy dele- gate during the armis- tice negotiations. Reuter.

MIXED

INDIAN

RECEPTION

a marked majority of Indian pub-President of Nizam of Hydera- The announcement of European and official majority. the eader of Hyderabad's State the expansion of the

Authoritative quarters recall Delegation to the three Round

Viceroy of India's Execu- that in various statements made Table Conferences in London. on behalf of the British Govern- Member for Civil Defence is tive Council and the

ment since the outbreak of war, Mr. Iraghavendra Rao, He was establishment of

a

it has been made clear that con- acting Governor of the Central stitutional charves in India are Provinces in 1836 and has twice Nation Defence Council ouite impracticable while the Bri-¡ been a Minister in the Central tish Empire is engaged in a vital Provinces Government of which has been given a mixed struggle or its existence and that he was appointed Home Member reception by the Indian an agreement between the major in 1930. political parties and Interests in

Member for Labour is Sir Firoz- press and party leaders, India is a fundamental condition| khan Noon, High Commissioner says a Bombay message. of the consideration of any new for India in London, who has only constitutional scheme.

Door Left Open

1

most

It will not, he says, secure the whole-hearted, willing and geb-

very recently returned from an While Mr. Savarkar, President extensive tour of the United of the All-India Hindu Mahashab- States.

ha, welcomes the step, Mr. Jinnah, It was last summer, following| Member for Indians Overseas is President of the All-India Mus im many attempts to ease political Mr. Madhao Shrihari Aney. He League, says it is to be tension in India, and to bring In- is a member of the Legislative deeply regretted. dian public opinion into close con- Assembly for Betar and was act- tact with the central government ing President of the Indian Con- in the conduct of the war that gress Party in 1933 and a member uine support of Muslim India for the Viceroy formulated proposals of the working Committée `until for the extension of his Council 1934..

the simple reason that, the per- and for setting up what was then

sons chosen and nominated by the The new Law Member is Sir Viceroy are neither real représen- described AS B War Advisory! Sultan Ahmed, Advocate-General Council,

tatives of the people, nor will they of Bihar. The new Member for For a number of reasons, these Education, Health and Land, is command the confidence and trust proposals were found to be un- Mr. Naline Ranjan Sarkar.

of Muslims./ ex- acceptable by the maior political Finance Minister of the Bengal Mr. Savakar says it is a step in parties in India, but. It was made Government.

the right direction but that it is,

clear by the Viceroy that the Gov- The creation. of the National as usual, belated and ha ting. ernment would leave the door Defence Council associates with The British-owned "newspaper, open for acceptance of, such a India's war effort representatives the "Times of India," of Bombay. plan as soon as a sufficient degree of all influential sections of the says the "new Government of In- of representative support was community which are ready to dia is unprecedented in Indian forthcoming."

cooperate and answer the insistent,history and does establish two.imal demand for something of this portant principles. For the first". kind-Reuter..

Politics Unchanged During the intervening months. all endeavours of the Viceroy were directed towards finding » way in which Indian public opin.. fon could be brought more intim ately into association with the administration in all matters con... · nected with the war effort.

STALIN THANKS

MOSCOW'S A.R.P.

time it is overwhelmingly: Indjan and overwhelmingly non-official. It is widely representative of the. provinces and can claim, in many respects: to be a National Gov- ërnment."

The vernacular newspaper, the "Amrita Bazar Patrika" of Cal- cutta, says the "re-constituted |Cabinet is neither fish, flesh nor

EMBEZZLEMENT

There is nothing to indicate: nt present that political conditions in

In an Order of the Day Issued good red hørring... It is, therefore, Indía are on the way towards be in Moscow yesterday. M. Stalin, not clear what particular object":{" ing bridged. Whitehall points as Commissar for Defence, attri-this Cabinet will serve."--Reuter. out that the Viceroy waited for butes the dispersal of the Gar no less than 11 months since the man air raiders to the vigilance feeler to political parties in India of the air observation service, to enter Government before ex-night fighters, organised anti-air- tending invitations to the indivi· craft fire and searchlight crews, duals he has now called to the while the fire-fighting" brigades Found guilty of embezzlement, service of their country.

and city militia were also thankt“ | Kom,Kai-ming, 24, electrician

was sentenced to six weeks' hard Thanks to the measures taken | Jabour by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., Nevertheless, the creating of a by these organisations, sald M. this morning. National Defence Council asso- Stalin, the order of the enemy's ....... Defendant collected $15.75 from clates with India's war effort re-planes way upset, only isolated a customer of his employer, Mr. presentatives of all influential planes penetrating to the capital | Arthur, Ho, radio shop maneger," sections of the community, which! Reuter,

and spent the money

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