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Reginald Coupland

Professor of Colonial History at Oxford, on:

Self-Government Waits on Co-operation

All those minorities, and ment may not interfere in their ment. That sume Act of 1985

provided for a Federal Govern- specially the Moslem League, re- detestation of the Axis and their domestic control of their Statesment for all India in which the fuse to accept a constitution desire for its overthrow. The except in cases of gross misrule. Princes as well as the Provinces drafted in accordance with the represented. This majority decisions of Congress. Indian Army has been largely IN the face of these facts it is would be

can the British easy to see why'a self-govern- Government also was to be com- What, then

do? - It cannot increased by free recruitment. Indian industry has been greatly ing India is a more difficult pro- posed of Indians responsible to Government expanded for the manufacture position than a self-governing an all-Indian parliament, except pledge itself to accept the will with regard to Defence and of Congress and impose it, by of armarients and other war- Canada or Australia.

Nevertheless, India under Foreign Policy, which were to force if need be, on the Moslems supplies. Private subscriptions to the war-funds have been on British rule has advanced far remain under British control and other minorities. All it can

the Viceroy, Lord- a highly generous scale.

along the same path as the until Indian forces were ready do is what THERE is only one discordant Dominions. By the Act of 1935, to undertake the defence of In- Linlithgow, has been ceaselessly trying to do, namely, to persuade note. The Congres party, led the cleven Provinces-big re- dia by themselves.

In fact, as British statesmen the various parties to agree. by Mr Gandhi, refuses to sup- gions, some with a population of

Act Everyone must hope that he will port the war-effort unless India 50 million--were handed over to repeatedly declared, the obtains without delay complete purely Indian governments res meant full Dominion Status vitimately succeed; for this independence, with freedom to ponsible to Indian parliaments. within measurable time. settle thereafter whether or not It is true that the British

much is certain: India will ob- tain her freedom as soon as its

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

promise as to the form it should take.

had not come into force when British Commonwealth.

constitutional heads of state, in- the war broke out, and when the That is more easily said than variably to act on the advice of Congress Party demanded the

But subject to immediate summoning of a re- BRITAIN cannot resist the done, for the establishment of their Ministers. self-government in India is far this reservation the control of more difficult than it has been all the life of the Province, in- indicate news which is strictly copyright in the Dominions. India is far cluding law and order and police,

Monday, March 17, 1941, Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

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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 Slates_to_give_uid_to_Britain_and_ her Allies in defence of democra- tic principles. The more it is studied the more amazing does it show itself.

In the emergency of war the President has almost limitless power placed in his hands as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. But no one dreamed, when those powers were given to him under the Constitution, that he would ever be called upon to exorcise them for benefit of European

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presentative Indian conference to draw up a new constitution for an independent India, the British Government was obliged to withhold its consent.

claims of a united India. Nor would she wish to resist them. A century ago, Macaulay, the great historian, said that the more like a continent than a is in the hands of a Prime Minis-

day when India, as the result of country, not only in that it is ler and Cabinet on the British

British rule, had learned to model.

The reason is simple enough. nearly as big as Europe, but be-

For the two years in which

govern herself would be the cause its huge population of 360

the Act was in operation before Congress does not represent all proudest day in English his- millions is divided by race, the war, eight of those Provin- British, India, still leas the tory. The British people feel language, custom and above all, ciul 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 us an the Ilindus, who are about two- against the non-acceptance of Moslem members, but the ma- independent nation of the Com- thirds of the population, and the the Congress demand for inde- jority of the Mostems belong to monwealth, linking East and 'n. rival party, the Moslem West in one free partnership. Moslems, who are about one- 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 radiates the Congress claim to triumph for the cause of free- ligious communities in Europe.

Foreign Policy, speak for all India. So do the dom which Britain has done so -- Defence, Another difficulty in the way Trade and Tariffs that India Hindu minority parties and much to extend and sustain

throughout the world. of self-government is the fact has not yet obtained self-govern- other minority groups.

pendence.

OF INDIA

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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 defcat Hitler BUT meanwhile, one of you has, through the medium of and you want no waste in war- 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

The last time I met you, Mr and too tragic for words, be- Nehru, you had recently return cause you both know that, with fact must encourage suspicions, how Hitler did the same about ed from Czechoslovakia and out full Indian co-operation, the even though, in the case of you, the German minorities in the were angry and alarmed by the Commonwealth may quite possi- Amery, I am absolutely con- Sudetenland, and Poland, and vinced that they are unworthy. Alsace and (before he made way in which our Government bly lose this war.

Mussolini his Ally and lackey)

I

other is wrong? But is that

of the time was playing into Despite the success of the

in the Italian Southern Tirol. Hitler's hands. You, Mr Amery Greeks, the Royal Navy and the YOU are each convinced the shared that anger and alarm. R. A. F., the Mediterranean-

Who am I to send you these is at stake? The failure to win reproaches? That's your ob minations, not to speak of free and INDEED, I can write one letter even the Atlantic-is an unsafe really important when so much

A year ago I ventured to full Indian support in this war vious reply and defence. But lavish assistance such as is made

to the two of you because sex.

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

also to the cause of free men all Christmas memorandum fore- implements of war of every sort of integrity and courage.

the world over. Why not leave shadowing a policy of collabora- to the Government

How it was of any don't know which has shown of Sicily and based on India.

The other day you, Amery, historians of the future to de- tion with China. | country whose defence the Preal-more-the one goes to prison 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 the effect of a dated and definite spent years at the Long Bar in no secure base in India by could be more sweeping.

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 Commons. 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 human progress and happiness. produce) and of the Indians possible offence it might give to doggedness that deserves more deep thankfulness throughout

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 sellle- plenty of room for people who the British Empire-the evi-

be?

where so many only see the 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

trees. the American people. A hun- the justification but also the ber we could recruit if we made

Yes, I know there are the dred years is not a long time in condemnation of the British it clear that this was also In- the life of a nation. It is only public school education. You dia's War) you howlite we minorities, and I sympathise So I make no apology for urg- ing you both to get on with a 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-

there are the princes, but I don't uld more to Hitler's confusion 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

unimportant now that I

Let's forget about the past, care much about them, because than many battalions, bombers hatred more.venomous than

In August, when the White they have had generations of and battleships. Surely, Amory, 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 fluctuations in Feeling you, Amery, are like you, Nehru, the hope that Congress and tion, and few of them have de- fallure and to resign than to go other parties in India would ac- voted that time to the develop on until those of us who now an old Harrovian.

did on an historic ocension," But majorities, too, have their "For God's sake, gol" Surely,

Edited by Dr. G. A. C. Harklots, PH.D., M.SC., F.I.S: Assised by G. 5. P. Haywood, M.A.. B.SC.

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The Birds of Hongkony.

.Part XXXVI., The Herons and Egrets.

A List of the Butterflies, of Honykong.

Part 1 Goncluded.

The Chinese Moon-moth.

Notes on Hongkong Butterflies.

Part IV. etc.

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not words and excuses.

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since those days, but upon the I can imaging you sitting at a cept. it as a stop in the right ment and happiness of their believe in you have to cry, as you

whole the movement has been towards a better understanding, until now a common dangor has brought the two nations closer than was thought possibio a few years or oven a few months ago.

table with a dozen other men direction. I am still sorry they people. who are proud of what is good did not, but not altogether sur 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 oxaggerating the help your fellow Indians in the me that would be invaluable in din for over 20 years, and we hardships of the minoritica in taak of deciding their helping the nations of Europe to still have not granted it. That India, I cannot but remember future?

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