HOPELESS OUTLOOK

Chronicle (Levin), 7 December 1946, Page 5

HOPELESS OUTLOOK

Received Fridav, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 6. It now seems certain that the L-ondon conversations between the Oovernment and the Indian leaders which will continue throughout today cannot avail to securc the Moslem League's participation at the opening of the ( 'onstitutent Assemhly. "Perhaps the greatest disappointment, " says The Times, in a leading article, "has been the 1'ailure of the Oovernment 's attempt to bring both sides together around the same tahle, and it is not surprising that little progress has been made towards an understanding. The grounds on which Air. Jinnah rel'nscs to participate in tlie Assemhly are well known. Ile affirms that the Congress party never fullv aeeepted the British Cabinet Mission's plan. but has put its tiwu interpretation on the provisions intended to secure poli-tic-al ])rotection of the Aloslems, and has therebv shown its determi nation to dominate the Assemblv by the voting power of the Hindus. , "Ile also alleges that the British Oovernment has permitted tlie Oongress Party tb inonopoli.se Ihe reality oi' ]iower in a manner conIrary lo British policv as expounded in the Oaliinet plan. He, (horehore, maintains that tlie Moslem League's i'urther cooperation has lieeome impossible since the League would faee thepros])eet of comipJete politioal suhordination. "It is difficult tjO deny the force of th'esc coiitentions. " The Times adds, "but this by no means implios that Mr. Jinnah 's persistence in his present attitude will bost serve even the Aloslem cause. Not l'mich hai'in may be dorie if the Alosleni League reiiresontatives are absent at the Assembly's early sessions which will be mainly devoted to formalites, but their eonlinued refusal to participate iu the working out of India 's future govprnnieiital structure will be regarded by many in Britain and elsewhere as having destroved the last hope of India 's constitutional development on peaeeful and ordei'ly lines, and will be hlamed l'or aggravating the tragic communal tension."