Hope Seen For Agreement With Pakistan

Chronicle (Levin), 17 August 1948, Page 5

Hope Seen For Agreement With Pakistan

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LONDON, August 15. . Speaking in the Albert Hall at a ; celebration of the first aHnivers^ry of : the independene-e of India, Sir Stafford Caipps said that the granting .of independence on August 15, 1947, was an event without parailel in the annals of the world. . i Although there was almost universal. good will between the people of Britain; and India, tliere were still a few ' ' dyed-in-tlie-wool Blimp-like reaction- ; aries, who look back with nostalgie r.e- ' gret." India 's independen.ee had been established for all time." There seemed every reason why an 1 arrangement should be reached which would preserve India V integrity, and at the same time give the peoples ef the States the form of government they desired. u * We do not want to see the eonstitution of economiea-lly impraeticable indepeudent States," he said. "We hope the trottbles which persist will rapidly disappea-r so that india and Pakistan ean build up an eeonomy untrammeiied by externai and internal difficulties. " Lord Mountbatten said the great \ statesman Nehru and the fearless and honourable Governor-General Rajagopaiachari, were guiding the new Dominign along the path to future great ' ness. He praised Mr. Gandhi, and saio that no disagreement between himseli i and the Ma-hatma had ever lasted long C'hakravanti R aj agop alac hari,' th- ; Indian Governor-General, in an anuiversary message, . urged Indians to work for a higher standard of produc tion. He said that nidependenep mean': that India had become a potential world State.