SHARP CLEAVAGE

Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1947, Page 5

SHARP CLEAVAGE

■ Press Assn.

laslem Leagae Suspicious | i ! VOTIMS PRCCEDURE DEBATE ;

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i Received vTuesdav, 7.1 5 p.m. | LONDON, Jan. 7. i Commenting on the All liulia Con- ! gress Conmiitree 's adoption after a ! uine-hour debate of the resolution ac- ; cepting the British Oovernmcnt 's statement of Deceniber ti on the proeedure for voting in sections ot tlie C'onstituent Assemldy, The Times' Delhi eori respondent eniphasises that both the 1 debate and the voting ligures revealed j a sharp cdeavage of views within Ihe i-ommittee, and it is apptirent that a large section of Congress opinion is ja\erse to course of a'-tion now ullicially i adopt ed. j The maia reason |or its adoption, the ! eorrespondent pointsout, is to leave the | door open for the .Moslem Loagne to j enler the t'onstituent Assembly and | assist in ihe eonstitution-niaking task. I But, he adds, it is donbtful whether j the resolution as now passed is couched I in sutTicient 1 y generous or liberal terms | to persuade the yioslem Reague oi Ihe I wisdom of aeeepting the bona lides of the Congress Party and entering ihe Assembls-. The generai trend of the debate, too, will hardly leassure the Moslem Reague | for most of the speakers asserted in el'feet that the British Covernment were insincere and that the Reague was tnerely aetuig as a tool of British I mperialisni. The Congress newspaper Hindustan Times desorilies as a big eoncession the resolution adopted by the All India j Congress aeeepting the British state nien'l that* ihe grouping oi* the lndiai provinees is eompulsury for wriliug the eonstitut ion. The pa[>er says it is hoped the Moslem Reague will gi\e uj ! its int ra nsigent attitude atul eooperate J "Dawn," the Aloslem Reague oifieial newspaper, states that Congress attempted to ereate an im]iression that j it is willing to f'ollow Ihe jiath o! ) reason and aeeept th.e British state I uient . but it sedulously mai ntaiued anc. J worked up op]iosition to the grouping idause wliieh is the vital ] >a it ot ihe j scdieme.