NEW SUGGESTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1942, Page 4

NEW SUGGESTION

TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT IN INDIA —, ■ I MADE BY SIR V. SASSOON. GRANT OF EMERGENCY- POWERS" TO VICEROY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This -Day, 12.55 p.m.) BOMBAY, January 18. Sir Victor Sassoon has made a new suggestion for a temporary settlement in India. He said Mr L. S. Amery, Secretary for India, for the duration of the war should hand ever all his powers to the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, who should declare a 'state of national emergency, cut away all red tape, and rule India as a temporary dictator. “Despite their professions of devotion for India, some of the leaders of the National Congress appear to hate England so much that they are prepared quite light-heartedly to abandon their fellow-countrymen to the tender mercies of the Japanese in the name of nonviolence," Sir Victor Sassoon observed. “To hand over the Government of India to them could only lead to a repetition of what occurred in Thailand. I have no objection even to an All-India Cabinet, provided it was understood that its'members are to be ruthlessly scrapped if they failed in their allotted tasks.”

Gandhi’s English weekly, the “Harijan,” has reappeared after many months of voluntary suspension. Mr Gandhi says it will deal with problems facing the people daily and declared: “I am not an enemy of Britain, but resistance to the war does not carry me to the point of thwarting those who participate therein. • I put before them the better way and leave them to make their choice.”