MAY BE ENDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1940, Page 6

MAY BE ENDED

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN INDIA VIEWS OF GANDHI & OTHERS. DESIRE FOR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) BOMBAY, December 3. Mr Gandhi has declared in a message to Rejendra Prasad, former President of the National Congress, that there must be no public demonstrations when members of the Congress are inviting arrest. Only the police should be informed of the intended resistance. Prasad, who is also Congress Leader in Bihar, has ordered a temporary suspension of civil disobedience throughout the province. The Australian Associated Press learns that Mr Gandhi is seriously considering a similar move throughout India. This is part of a wider plan to attempt to end the political deadlock. Mr Gandhi hopes that Pandat Nehru and over a hundred other arrested persons will be released if disobedience is suspended, thereby opening the way to renewed negotiations with the Viceroy. Meanwhile prominent Liberals throughout India are considering the formation of a committee as a prelude to an. all-party meeting to devise a formula for the formation of a National Government. A number of leading members of the National Congress are believed to be interested.