The Archive · 1940

Indian Congress Refuses To Help Britain

Mr. Gandhi on Preparing for Fight for Indian Freedom

Calcutta, Mar. 3.

"The Indian National Congress will mot rest until India is as free as Britain," declares Mr. M. K. Gandhi án a-statement to Reuter today.

"Gongress" he adds, "has not flossed. the door to compromise or negotiation, but it has been closed by Lord Zetland (Secretary of State for India).

"There can be no negoti ion on Soviets Making Roads In Tadjikistan Moscow, Mar. 3. Considerable road-making activity is reported at Tadjikistan, which is a Soviet republic, situated north of Afghanistan. New roads being made radiate ing from the capital Stalinabad.—Reuter.

World," that the Allies might grow tired of sitting and waiting while Russia is helping Germany.

General Sir Hubert Gough, former commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army, wrote that intervention against Russia was advisable.

The magazine "Nineteenth Century" considers that such intervention is not only advisable but indispensabl "Time and Tide" agrees with this opinion.

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