INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE

Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1946, Page 5

INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE

BRITAIN'S PLANS OUTLINED PAKISTAN ISSUE NO LONCER AT LTAKE - Received Monciay, 8.20 p.m. ! BONDON, Marcii 18. Mr. Attlx-C's Soatexneuo on Incna nas ..roused enoxxasiasm m Nc.oiouaL.xt _ndia, whicii is now iockinj for ward uo orxe success of tLc Oaoiuet mission v/ith optimism, s..ys the Times' Delln correspondent. J.ndia is specially plqaued by two yoiii „s in t_u cLclaration — firstiy, tnat j as f'ar as Britain is conceme.t, inrlependence is Iim.a's for tfie c .xeconcuy, thwi xxi the conuug negotiaciona tne lmnurit/ would not oe aiiuwetl co piace a . ouu on tne au v ance of the uiajorxty. Baadit Nehru revealed that Oongress realisect that India couid not be govern ed as a union against tne v/isfies of tne xviosiem comiiiuiiity. If fuU provinciai uuconomy was not enougn for the ivxoslems, Oongress woaxd yermit tliein to have a separate btate or btates. Bvidentiy, acids the correspondent, it xs no longer the principie of Pakistan which is at stake, out cne cletans. An ! agreemcnt xegardmg Pakistan v.Cidu be ! .aaiiny a mao&er of bcundaiaes and i .jacxsxactory arrangemenos for the uni- | .xed conduct of fureign alfairs, ueience j .iid ained matters. ivlr. J xnnaxi, tne Meslem leader, was ! -sss happy aoout Mr. Attlee s state j ment, oue was cauLous m his criticxsm. j _j.e reiterated that division of xndia j ./as the only basis for a soiution of tne 1 constituticnal pro biem. The corxesponden.c recalls that the ! ti rritoriai basis of Pakistan includes I ilind, Punjab, Baiuchistan, the Lorcn- j west i ronticr, Bengal aua Assani. ...i. says that Mr. Jiiinah hiuted that, once ! the prmcipie of Panistan was concecled, i he was ready to discuss an adjuscment j of boundaries so as to leave out large | areas with non-Moslem rnajonties. The correspondent expresses tne opxn iou that it woiud be well mgn ixnpos- ! • .j.e for the Moslems to govern the I Punjab, wicfi 40 per cent. of non-Mos- j -t- innaoitants, or Bengal and Assani, j ./ith a non-Moslem majority. Dr. Azad, the ilcxtioxiai leader, speak.ng at Lonioay, said: "I consider that Mr. Attlee 's speech on the wnoie has .iBlped to estaciish a desiraoie atmotpnere, which we want to maintaxn ..diring the stay of the British missioix .n India. Mr. Attlee 's speech tnrew -ight on certain oasic probiems. I be- ! heve that its spirit v/ill certainly be j appreciafed by lnaia. The real problem j no w to be tackied does not concerh | meorccical pxincxples, uut actual prac- j tice."