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A COMMON DANGER

"NOT merely Congress alone, (but also Congress and the Presi-

dent conjoined, are subject to the Constitution, and cannot move a step outside the circle which the Constitution has drawn around

them."

When one reads those words, written by the greatest British authority on the affairs of the American Commonwealth, Lord Bryce, one is amazed at the skill with which President Roosevelt has steered round the manifold obstructions to enable the United States to give aid to Britain and her Allies in defence of democra- tic principles. The more it is studied the more amazing does it show itself.

Reginald Coupland

Professor of Colonial History at Oxford, on:

Self-Government Waits on Co-operation

ment. That same Act of 1935 All those minorities, and provided for a Federal Govern- specially the Moslem. League, re- ment for all India in which the fuse to accept a constitution

can the British

India, too, is making a great Crown, but the British Govern- war-effort. Her leaders have

ment may not interfere in their declared with one voice their detestation of the Axis and their domestic, control of their States desire for its overthrow. The except in cases of gross misrule. Princes as well as the Provinces drafted in accordance with the Indian Army has been largely IN the face of these facts it is would be represented. This majority decisions of Congress.

easy to see why a self-govern- Government also was to be com- What, then increased by free recruitment, Indian industry has been greatly ing India is a more difficult pro- posed of Indiana responsible to Government do? It cannot expanded for the manufacture position than a self-governing

an all-Indian parliament, except pledge itself to accept the will of armaments and other war. Canada or Australia.

with regard to Defence and of Congress and impose it, by supplies. Private subscriptions Nevertheless, India under Foreign Policy, which were to force if need be, on the Moslems to the war-funds have been on British rule has advanced far remain under British control and other minorities. All it can' a highly generous scale. along the same path as the until Indian forces were rendy do is what the Viceroy, Lord THERE is only one discordant Dominions. By the Act of 1936, to undertake the defence of In- Linlithgow, has been ceaselessly

note. The Congres party, led the cleven Provinċes-big re- dla by themselves.

trying to do, namely, to persuade by Mr Gandhi, refuses to sup- gions, some with a population of. In fact, as British statesmen the various parties to agree. port the war-effort unless India 50 million--were handed over to repeatedly declared, the Act Everyone must hope that he will obtains without delay complete purely Indian governments res- meant full Dominion Status ultimately succeed; for this independence, with freedom to ponsible to Indiau parliaments. within measurable time.

much is certain: India will ob- settle thereafter whether or not. It is true that the British

tain her freedom as soon as it's

British Commonwealth.

I

she will remain within the Governors are not bound, like TS Federal part of the Act main parties can come to a com→

had not come into force when constitutional heads of state, in- the war broke out, and when the promise as to the form it should That is more easily said than variably to act on the advice of Congress Party demanded the take, done, for the establishment of their Ministers. But subject to immediate summoning of a re- BRITAIN cannot resist the self-government in India is far this reservation the control of presentative Indian conference more difficult than it has been all the life of the Province, in- in the Dominions. India is far cluding law and order and police,

model.

claims of a united India. Nor

to draw up a new constitution would she wish to resist them, A century ago, Macaulay, the for an independent India, the

to withhold its consent.

more like a continent than a is in the hands of a Prime Minis- country, not only in that it is ler and Cabinet on the. British British Government was obliged great historian, said that the day when India, as the result of nearly as big as Europe, but be

British rule, had learned to For the two years in which The reason is simple enough. cause its huge population of 360

the Act was in operation before Congress does not represent all proudest day in English his- govern herself would be the millions is divided by race, the war, eight of those Provin- British India, still less the tory'. The British people feel language, custom and above all, cial Ministries were drawn from Princes and their States. Con- the same to-day. They genuine- the Congress Party until they gress is certainly far the strong- religion.

were directed by Congress head- est party in India, but it mainly ly desire to see India taking her There is a deeper gulf between quarters to resign as a protest consists of Hindus. It has many place with the Dominions as an the Hindus, who are about two- against the non-acceptance of Mosiem members, but the ma- independent nation of the Com- thirds of the population, and the the Congress demand for inde- jority of the Moslems belong to monwealth, linking East and Moslems, who are about one-

a rival party, the Moslem West In one free partnership. Thus it is only in matters League, which vigorously re- They will hail it as one more quarter, than between any re- which concern India as a whole pudliates the Congress claim to triumph for the cause of free- ligious communities in Europe. -- Defence, Foreign Policy, peak for all India. So do the dom which Britain has done so Another difficulty in the way. Trade and Tariffs that India Hindu minority parties and much to extend and sustain of self-government is the fact has not yet obtained self-govern- other minority groups.

throughout the world.

D

pendence.

OF INDIA

EAR Amery, dear Nehru, benefit from our experiences in please forgive me if I the Dominions and Colonies. address you both in one letter. There's a great job to be done. You will do so because you are

both anxious to defeat Hitler BUT meanwhile, one of you and you want no waste in war- has, through the medium of

time.

the Viceroy, popped the other into gnol. It's almost too silly

Vernon Bartlett

Diplomatic Correspondent and Member of Parliament

Writes an Open Letter to Amery and

Nehru

In the emergency of war the President has almost limitless power placed in Iris hands 13 The last time I met you, Mr and too tragic for words, be- Commander-in-Chief of the Nehru, you had recently return cause you both know that, with- fact must encourage suspicions, how Hitler did the same about Army, Navy, and Air Force.ed from Czechoslovakia and out full Indian co-operation, the even though, in the case of you, the German minorities in the But no one dreamed, when those were angry and alarmed by the Commonwealth may quite possi- Amery, I am absolutely con- Sudetenland, and Poland, and powers were given to him under way in which our Government bly lose this war.

vinced that they are unworthy. Alsace and (before he made of the time was playing into the Constitution, that he would Hitler's hands. You, Mr Amery

Mussolini his Ally and lackey) ever be called upon to exercise shared that anger and alarm. them for benefit of European

nations, not to speak of free and

lavish assistance such as is made

Despite the success of the

R. A. F., the Mediterranean-.

Greeks, the Royal Navy and the YOU are each convinced the

other is wrong? But is that

in the Italian Southern Tirol.

Who am I to send you these INDEED, I can write one letter even the Atlantic-is an unsafe really important when so much

is at stake? The failure to win reproaches? That's your ob- to the two of you because sea.

A year ago I ventured to full Indian support in this war vious reply and defence. But

possible under his amazing Bil. Your beliefs are so much alike remind the House of Commons would be one of the greatest I look back to the situation in in the many respects. You both that we had two wars to fight, disasters imaginable, not only to China in 1926, when Sir Austen It empowers him to hand over have those invaluable qualities the one west of Gibraltar and the British Commonwealth, but Chamberlain produced his implements of war of every sort of integrity and courage. based on England, the other enst

also to the cause of free men alt Christmas memorandum fore- to the Government

of any don't know which has shown of Sicily and based on Indin..

the world over. Why not leave shadowing a policy of collabora- country whose defence the Presi-more--the one goes to prison The other day you, Amery, historians of the future to de- tion with China. How it was dent deems vital to the defence for his convictions, and the other tried in that same House to cide who is to blame, and try criticised by Britishers who had of the United States. Nothing defends them against his own cover up the fact that we had

no secure base in India, by the effect of a dated and definite spent years at the Long Bar in party bosses in the House of figures of the war material we promise for the introduction of the Shanghai Club! But now the There is another aspect of this

Commony. You both know how were producing there (so little Dominion status? Or of a direct Chinese are fighting for the deal which will be regarded with much is at stake that will affect compared with what we might personal meeting, despite the same cause as ourselves, with a deep thankfulness throughout human progress and happiness, produce) and of the Indians possible offence it might give to doggedness that deserves more the British Empire--the evi-

You both have those tradi- whom loyalty or poverty had a Viceroy who, after all, is as gratitude than it gets. There is driven to volunteer for the Army anxious to see a sensible settle- plenty of room for people who dence of good-will on the part of tions of personal loyalty that are (so few compared with the num- ment as I believe you both to try to see the wood in a world the American people. A hun- the justification but also the ber we could recruit if we made be?

where so many only see the trees,

could be more sweeping.

dred years is not a long time in condemnation of the British it clear that this. was also In- Yes, I know there are the the life of a nation. It is only public school education. You dia's war). The House was minorities, and I sympathise So I make no apology for urg- u hundred years since a French may even have been to the same bored, and you know it, because with them, for I am almost al-ing you both to get on with writer said that he could imagine school, but all that seems to me it wanted deeds and progress, ways, in a minority myself. And the job. Between you, you can

not words and excuses. no hatred more venomous than so unimportant now that I

there are the princes, but I don't add more to Hitler's confusion Let's forget about the past. care much about them, because than many battalions, bombers that between the Americans and haven't bothered to look in the English. There have been "Who's Who" to see whether Paper was published, I expressed security under British protec- it would be better to admit In August, when the White they have had generations of and battleships. Surely, Amery, many fluctuations in feeling you, Amery, are like you, Nehru, the hope that Congress and tion, and few of them have de- failure and to resign than to go since those days, but upon the

other partics in India would ac- voted that time to the develop- on until those of us who now whole the movement has been ...I can imagine you sitting at a cept it as a step in the right ment and happiness of their belleve in you have to cry, as you

table with a dozen other men direction. I am still sorry they people.

did on an historic occasion. who are proud of what is good did not, but not altogether sur- But majorities, too, have their "For God's sake, go!" Surely, in the Commonwealth and agree- prised. We British have talked rights, and when I hear officials Nehru, you can do still more to ing upon a far-sighted program- about Dominion status for In- emphasising or exaggerating the help your fellow Indians in the me that would be invaluable in dia for over 20 years, and we hardships of the minorities in task of deciding their helping the nations of Europe to still have not granted it. That India, cannot but romembor, future?

towards a better understanding, until now a common danger has brought the two nations closer than was thought possible a fow years or even a few months ago,

an old Harrovian.

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