INDIA
SUPPLIES THE ARMIES OF
THE EAST
"India forms the sole source of supply for our armies in the> East; she is becoming the sole source of supply for a great part of Asia. She is becoming a vast industrial country.
Whereas when this war began the Indian people owed great Britain untold millions, when "this war ends we shall be owing them untold millions. That is a revolution which is surely taking place every day. Everything is being done now to teach the laidia 11 peoples to become mechanics. They are extraordinarily apt learners. A,nyone who has been in the African colonics knows that aH the raihvay and machine shops are run by Indians. They have now got the capital, which we in this country, have not got, in order to develop their industries, and I have not the slightest doubt that whatever happens about self-government or about the course ot the war, Indiii will increase its importance, relative not only to this country, but to the whole world: it will increase its wealth, and at the same time it will increase its liberal spirit of democratic home rule." —-Mr Wedgwood, M.l\. in the House of Commons.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 170, 20 October 1941, Page 3
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