Now comes the Britis Government's great diMeulty, 'They are perfectly prepared to give full dominion powers to India, but when you go into the question you find: {hat each group wants these dominion powers in its own favour and refuses fo agree to the particular' form that other large sections of the country desire, As a result the British Government has had to qualify its offer of full dominion powers with a rider that such powers must be agreed to by all large communities in the coun try and naturally must hold certain safeguards, Let me try and explain now what the most important divisions In India want, "To begin with, you must not forgot that a large part of India is ruled {na semi-independent way by various Indian Princes, This semi-independence ranges from the State of Hyderabad, the Nizam of which considers he is only an ally of Great Britain and consequently independent his own country, to the least of the small Rajahs, who finds his actions very much "elrcumseribed by the British resident, All these people of the Indian Staies want to be safe-narded against the possible effect on their status If dominion powers are wranted in what is today known as British India, Tf that was the only dimeulty it would be diMeult enough, but even in' British India there is very large difference of opinion, and this difference of opinion is. mainly between the Musselmen and the Hindus, The speaker went on to explain the difference of opinion betwee these main sections of the Indian trying to take advantage of England's Aght against Germany, "This is the reason why Gandhi's new polley appears so illogical, the one hand, he says that nobody must do anything to prevent England from winning the war against Germany, nobody must do anything to stop this end from being achieved, but on the other hand he and his foliow~ jets ask for the right to go round and preach to individuals to try and persuade them not to fight for. England nor io carry out any war effort, "Untouchability"
"All Gandhi wants the rank and file to do is to keep quiet, encourage home spinning and, most' of all, to work for Gandhi's' great objective, the abolition of untouchabitity, And that is not the only example of the Hlogteality of Gandhi's views, For if you look at it in another way, presumably Gandhi realizes that when the claims for his followers the right to encourage a refusal to fight or work for England he is really doing something to the advantage of the Breatest crusader in favour of untouchability that the world has ever known, For the Germans, have publicly boasted that their plai—you might call it the Crooked Cross [Crusade—is to reduce all non-German races to the status of uneducated slaves, whose very existence in the same community is an insult to the superiority of the German race—and that Is the same as lo produce a world of super men on the one hand and untouchables on the other, "To come back to the main argument, The rank and file cannot ree how they are to fight for Congeess jan at the same time do nothing to hurt the British cause, and when 1 tell you that the Viceroy of India promised Gandhi that he was pre-ared to give Congressmen the same rights as we in England give to con~ scientious objectors, T think you will agree that he went as far as he could, He stated, in effect, that "if a man does not want to fight or do anything this war, T won't make him, but cannot et him go round trying to persuade other people to follow. his views." What Gandhi expected from his now tactless T do not know, but do not think that the results have been found very satisfactory for his party."
Sir Victor concluded by slating that he sees the beginning of a new in India, when the people will begin complaining about the Government for not organizing the defence of India and the manufacture of munitions on a large scale, He also mentioned the urge felt by many Indians to fight against the Nazis, although the moment the government cannot roerult all who are willing since the supply of arms and equipment is not sullleient to go round, community, The Congress, dominated by Hindus, is said by the Mussel men to have treated them unfairly, with the consequence that many Musselmen have withdrawn from the Congress Party. If British India were to be xi von Dominion status along the lines desired by the Congress party, "That would mean in effect that the Congress Party would rule India, protected by the British fleet and by British bayonets against the external enemies of India, and protected ins ternally by a police force with power to put in jail or concentration camps, of their political opponents who ald not agree with their views, British Bayonets "So this is what the Congress Party wants—India to be ruled by Congress Government, backed up by British bayonets, Also they claim the right torinterfere in the Indian States, and In the event of the Indian states objecting and trouble resulting, then again British bayonets and' British organization would be expected to help them get their way, "That gives you a veneral picture of England's dimeulty, when trying to deal equitably with both sides who are trying to take advantage of Eng-Innd's difficulties to yet extra political power for themselves, T am certain, though, thut there is no Indian in authority who really supports the Axis powers; they all want to sce Germany beaten, and hope that Ger many will be beaten, but many are Local Courts Barricaded Shanghai, Feb. 7.
'A sequel to the recent' bombing culrages involving the First Special District Court in Wethaiwei Road and its criminal division in North Che-Kiang Road was seen yesterday when barbed wire barricades were erected by the Municipal police in the viol of the tribunals as a precautionary measure. As a result of the bar-Fleades on Tsepoo Road and Kansvh Road scores of Chinese houses in the neighbourhood were blockaded.
Many persons secking admission to the courts except its officials and members of the Munic'pal police were subjected to a search by' watchmen of the courts, The rendition of the Chinese court in the Settlement to the new regin agitation over which has been going on for some time, is one of the few Femaining questions to be liquidated between the Settlement authorities Consular Body and Nanking.
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