GANDHI ENCOURAGED

Chronicle (Levin), 20 May 1946, Page 8

GANDHI ENCOURAGED

. NEW DELHI, May 17. Gandliij addressing a prayer meeting in New Delhi, said: "The British Cabinet Mission 's ptoposals eontain seed to convert this land of sorrow into one without sorrow aiid suffering. " He asked tiie people to examine the pfopflsals not from a parochial viewpoint but from- tliat of the eiltire country. "It is opou for tiie Constituent AsSembly to abolish tlie distinction of Moslems ahd noii-Moslems, whicli the mission felt foreed to recognise," he said. "Moreover, tlie provinces are t'ree tq.fejeet the very idea of group. Bubject to tliese interpretatioiis, the mission lias brought forth soijietllihg of which it has every reasoii to be proud. ' f There al*e' some who shy the British are incapable of doing the right thing. ■ X don't agree with theiilj becaiise fhe mission and the Vieei'oy are as Godfearing as We are ourselves. Wllatever Wrong British rule lias doiie to India, if the ihission 's statement is gentiihe; as I believe it is, tlien the statetrietit 'tneaiis that they intentl to discharge tlie dbligation whicli the British owe to India — to get off India 's back." Jiidging from Mr. Gandlii 's favoiirable address at the prayer meeting, it is ihoiiglit tlie Coiigress Working Gomniittee will accept ilie British Cabinet MiSsioii's plan, says the Ext'.liaiige Telegraph 's NdW Delhi correspondent. The Moslem Leagtie is iiot. expected to issue a stateiilent uiltil Mr. Jiniiah returns to Delhi. Mr. Ghndlii yesterday told tlie Cpjigress Working Coniiiiittee that, if he had been made uihpire . in the decision, he coilld not have given a better judgment than. Britain's new proposals.