INDIA AND CIVIL OFFICIALS' COMPENSATION
Received Wednesdav, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 22. Tlie Times ' New Delhi coiTespondent says the L'nder-Secretary of Slate for inilia ( Al r. Artlrur Jleiiiiersoii) Jeft by air for London on Tuesday after a fortniglil 's discussions with members of the interim Government on the question of compensation for civil ollicers of the lndian arnied forces whose services may be perinanently ended for constitutiona| reasons. The discussions were expioratorv and -M r. Henderson will now roport to liis Hajesty's Goveriiineiit on ihe attitude of tlie lndian Govenniieiit. Jt'is belioved there is a wide divergence of views between the two (lovernments 011 the issue, and it is noteworthy llrat besides ofticial nationalist objections to conipensation clainis these Jiave had a uniformly hostile press tlironghout lndia. , The correspondent adds that Ihe nunibers involved in Air. Henderson 's discussions are approximatelv: Ciyil services, Europeans 1350, Indians .100; arnied forces, Europeans 12(55, Jndians 150. The Jndians' case is not aho gether 011 all fours with the Europeans', lnit they have hitherto present ed a cinited front liecause many lndian ollicers are doublful abont their future uuder ati independetu lndia.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 January 1947, Page 5
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