INDIAN LEADER TALKS OF REVOLUTION

Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1946, Page 8

INDIAN LEADER TALKS OF REVOLUTION

Received Sundav, 7 p.m. NEW DELHI, Dec. 28. The Gongress socialist leader, Narain, told a press confereiice that be foresaw tlie possibilitv, i?" not Ihe probabilily, oi' a breakdown in Ihe indian Interim Government within six months, and that a breakdown might preeipitale a revolutiouary struggle against tlio British. "1 dehnitely think the present situation re(|uires th.vt we prepare for an active struggle," he said. " We ilon't waut to be caught napping. " Narain said the struggle he envisagetl against tlie British would be parallel to the American 1 evolution. Ile assefted that no ■orgaaisation excepL AIop---gress could start"a,'nattxoiUil struggffe Yn'L lndia. . Narain emphasised tliat lie did not expect civil war but war with Britain. Critieising British policy tn lndia as , ' 4 underhand sabotage, " Narain said Britain on the oue haud was preparing to leave lndia and 011 tlie other hand was utilising every reactionary and auti-natioiiiil element to prevent their leaving. He declared that by reaction-

ary elenients lie meant communal elernents, outstanding aiuong which were tlie Moslem League and big business. "To me the Moslem League is a British front. If the League comes into tlie Gonstituent Assembly all the Assembly's eapacitv for work toward freedom will be destroyed, " he added. Mr. Gandhi warned l'ndians in a s])eecb at Spi ranipur, that if lndia passed under the control of U110, which miglit occur if the Indians continued to qudrrel, it would mean goodbye to freedom because lndia tlien would not liave one mastcr but many masters. Indians sliould tberefone clearly visualise wbat lay in store for them "if tliey continued to* iiglit among themselves. Tlie Bihar Governmest has announeed that 1394 Hindus and 81 Moslems have been arrested in eonnection with the communal riots in Bihar. /