Indian Assembly Meeting

Chronicle (Levin), 22 November 1946, Page 5

Indian Assembly Meeting

Press Assn.

PROLONGING UNSETTLEMENT

By Telegraph

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Received Tliursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 21. / An official aunouncement that h preliminury meeting of the Cunstiuiem Assembly \vas beiug held on Dereiiihej [), sets at rest the speculation and cou troversv which Ijave been rife in re cent weeks about his Atajestv Government 's intentions, says tlu Tinies' Delhi correspondent, and shouhi give the quietus to crjtics in t'ougros quarters who'havo beeji quurying lli. Vicerov's good faitli. The anmuiucc lite'ut, unfortunately, is uniikely to i». welconied in Aloslem circles because t li Moslem League reiuains unconviuced u. the wisdom of holding the (.'onstituen, Assembly under tlie present straiiieo circmusf ances. On tlie other linnd t.'on gress leaders, lieaded bv Mr. Nehr>.. strongly hold that further delay ni sunimoning the Assembly would bv most undesirable as it would play int. the hands of the Aloslefn League, t(u implication beiug that the League is interested in prolonging the prevailing unsettlement, thereby provoking coiii niunal strife aiul persuading worlu opinion that Pakistan is the onlv cur. for India's ills. t'ongress wishes t., avoid further delay in the belief tlin. once the Constituent Assembly nieets and whetlier or not tlie Moslem l.eagu attends, the logie of events will ult. niatelv induce the League to reeonsidiits boycott and partic.ipate in th 'Assembly at a later *tuge. Mr. JinnaU, in a letter to Loii Wavell, said the Moslem League woui nof particijuite in the t'oustituent A> sembly, the meeting of which wa neither advisable nor possible with two hostile canips resulting iii Killin murder and destruction of property. Ile added that the latest relialde estunate showed 3(1, 000 killed and 1 .1(1,1)0 refugees in Bihar. The Congress working committee has called 011 all Congress party nieiubei to take c-vory possible step to end the sjiirit of retaliatiou in the Hindu Moslem disorders.