CHARTER FOR INDIA
GRANTING NEW POWERS OF SELF-GOVERNMENT MR CHURCHILL’S REPORTED PLANS. FOR CONSOLIDATING EMPIRE FRONT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, February 22. Mr Churchill’s plans for consolidating the Empire front include a charter granting new powers of self-government to India, says the Press Association’s political correspondent, He adds that London political circles believe that the Air Secretary (Sir Archibald Sinclair) will soon leave the Air Ministry for a special mission to India. A New Delhi message states that the non-party conference passed a resolution supporting General Chiang Kaishek’s appeal that Britain should transfer political power to India as soon as possible and also advocating that, India’s representatives on the British War Cabinet and Pacific Council should be non-official and “representatives of the people.” The Muslim League unanimously reelected Mr Jinnah as president.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1942, Page 4
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136CHARTER FOR INDIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1942, Page 4
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