DELAY ADVISED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 4

DELAY ADVISED

BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PARTY POSTPONEMENT OF GANDHI POLICY. NEHRU CRITICISES CRIPPS BROADCAST. (By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) NEW DELHI, July 28. Members of the Congress Party itself are pressing Mr Gandhi to suspend, for the time being, the threat of civil disobedience. Mr Satyanarayan Sinha, a committeeman who is also the party's chief whip in. the Central Legislature, has suggested to Mr Azad that the disobedience decision should be postponed until October, when a new Congress committee will be elected. Mr Sinha argues that the most important decision should rest on the committee charged with, implementing the policy. “It is sad beyond measure that Sir Stafford Cripps, acting as the devil’s advocate, should make such statements to America,” said Pandit Nehru, when commenting on Sir Stafford’s recent broadcast. “He has injured BritishIndian relations more than any other Englishman could have done. He picked out passages from Mr Gandhi’s statements without reference to . the context and built up a case for British imperialism. Sir Stafford Cripps completely misrepresented the Congress position. Congress clearly stated that a free India would defend the country in every way by armed force. The question of non-violence had not arisen.”