GANDHI’S TERMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1055, 20 August 1930, Page 9

GANDHI’S TERMS

PRISON CONFERENCES GAIN NOTHING ATTACKED IN ENGLAND LONDON, Tuesday. The Indian Nationalist leader, Mohandas Gandhi, who is undergoing a term of imprisonment, has communicated terms for a cessation of the civil disobedience campaign to the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, through the agency of friends, who were permitted to visit him. According to the “Daily Telegraph'* the terms are as follow: Gandhi recognises that in view of the strength of the Conservative and Liberal Opposition in Britain the Labour Government may not be able to guarantee Dominion status to India as a result of the forthcoming roundtable conference, but he demands that the Government shall definitely adopt the policy of substantive independence as its own at that conference, giving a pledge to grant an amnesty to political prisoners. Upon that being done the non-co-operation movement will be called off. The “Telegraph,” in an editorial article, comments that Gandhi’s programme has been changed only to tha extent of dictating a policy to the British Government instead of to Parliament. Little was hoped for from the parleys in prison and the result is nothing. Gandhi will learn, says the paper, that Britain is not prepared, under any political circumstances, to sanction the crime of flinging India into a state of chaos.