INDIA DIVIDED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 172, 23 July 1942, Page 5

INDIA DIVIDED

DISOBEDIENCE PLAN Gandhi Fails To Stir Up Mass Enthusiasm U.P.A. and British Wireless. LONDON, July 22. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Leader of the Depressed Classes, speaking at Bombay, said that it was the patriotic duty of all Indians, no matter of what their political parties, to resist as strongly as possible any attempt of the Congress party to launch the civil disobedience movement. He added that at present it would create anarchy and chaos. The Calcutta correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says that protests against the Congress resolution are pouring in from all over the country. These come from men devoted to the cause of Indian freedom. Gandhi, for the first time, is witnessing no great stirring of mass enthusiasm, which in the past has f^ ay P S 5® en . a P relu de to the launchS°f h ls . disobedience campaign. c national executive committee of the British Labour party adopted a resolution that the party tho'rlfr t0 Promote the well-being of tw, P eo P le and their aspiraH° . s J, or . se |f-g°vernment, reaffirmed i them to make a further effort to reach a satisfactory settlement in conjunction with the British Government. The committee regarded with apprehension the possible effect of civil disobedience on thoi ° rts °, f the United Nations in their struggle for world freedom. xhe resolution added that civil disobedience was a proof of political irresponsibility, which might imperii the fate of all freedom-loving peonies and thereby destroy all hope of Indian freedom.

A New Delhi message reports that the Central Organisation of the Jsational War Front, commenting on the Congress Working Committee's resolution, says that it involves a stab in the back to Indian troops, who believe that a Japanese invasion would be bad for th*freedom ana prosperity of India. |Vhe National War Front, ncprmally, o>uld not concern itself with the resolution, but it thinks that the results of the resolution will be profoundly disturbing.