GANDHI IN BOMBAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1942, Page 3

GANDHI IN BOMBAY

FOR MOMENTOUS CONGRESS

MEETING

REPORTS MADE BY LEADERS.

ATTITUDE OF COMMUNISTS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 3.

Mr Gandhi has arrived in Bombay for Friday’s meeting of the Congress Party’s committee to discuss the “quit India” resolution, passed by the Working Committee. He will stay for a week and will address the committee meetings, and will also attend meetings of the Working Committee. Reports on the reactions of Indians to the proposed campaign have been made to Gandhi by Mr Patel and Pandit Nehru. The general secretary of the Indian Communist Party today said the Communists were pledged to resist Japanese aggression. “We call for immediate unity between (he Congress and the Moslem League for a national Government, and for unity with the United Nations for the sake of our own freedom and world freedom.” PLAIN LANGUAGE USED BY SOME INDIAN LEADERS. “GROSS BETRAYAL OF OUR COUNTRY.” (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 4. Over the weekend many outspoken attacks have been made by Indian leaders against the Congress “quit India” resolution. Apart from Mr. Jinnah (President of the Moslem League), Sir Sikander Hayat Khan, Premier of the Punjab, described the civil disobedience resolution as “a gross betrayal of our country.”

The general secretary of the All India Hindu Party declared that while a free India would have been a tower of strength to the Allies, the only result of civil disobedience would be to hurl the country into chaos and confusion and make it an easy prey for the enemy.

The All India Union of Christians also came out against the resolution; also the All Indian Nationalist League, in so far as civil disobedience is concerned.