INDIAN PARTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1942, Page 3

INDIAN PARTIES

CONGRESS AND MOSLEM LEAGUE PROSPECTS OF SETTLEMENT DISCUSSED. DEMAND MADE BY SIKHS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW DELHI, March 23. The President of the Indian National Congress, Abul Kalam Azad, met the Premier of the Punjab, Major Sir Sikander Hyathan, at Lahore, and discussed the prospects of a settlement between Congress and the Moslem League. Many Moslems are dissociating themselves from the extreme demands of the leader of the league, Mr Jinnah. An emergency meeting of the working committee of the central Sikh organisation passed a resolution demanding an unequivocal declaration that all important minorities would be treated alike in the future constitutional scheme. They further demanded representation in the provincial and central governments.

' SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS INTERVIEWS IN DELHI. MR JINNAH ON MOSLEM ASPIRATIONS. This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 24. A New Delhi message states that Sir Stafford Cripps attended a meeting of the Viceroy’s Executive Council yesterday, saw General Waveli in the evening and met the governors of Madras, Bombay and Bengal today. Mr Jinnah (Moslem leader), in a speech declared: “We want to live as a free nation. We are not a minority community. We are a nation. We do not want to embarrass the British Government, because we know the real situation, but I have never accepted the principle that we can live under any foreign government. We will resist to the death the enforcement of any scheme detrimental to Moslems.”