SEES WORLD PEACE.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17981, 28 March 1930, Page 5

SEES WORLD PEACE.

IN {INDEPENDENT INDIA. COUNTRY MUST BE FREE. An independent India will assure international peace and universal disarmament, Sailendranath Ghose, president of the American branch of the Indian National Congress, declared in an address at the luncheon discussion of the Foreign Policy Association at New York. The address was broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company chain. “Subjected India is the exciting cause of international rivalries, international jealousies, and the lust of conquest in the materialistic nations of the world,” said Air Ghose. “The possession by the sword of India by Great Britain has aroused similar desires for colonial possessions by other ■ Powers, who imitate Britain’s tactics to maintain such possessions by their army and navy. Cause of Naval Activity. “It is because of India that England maintains the biggest navy, and it is because of India that America will have to build up to British demands to maintain American naval parity with England. It is because of India that Japan, France and Italy may have to build up their navies to match British challenge. “Navalism, militarism, commercialism and imperialism thrive on the subjection of one people by another, and they must be banished from this earth so that the nations of the world can honestly begin to think of renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. India’s independence will be the only cause of world peace and universal disarmament. “India has declared that she must be free. She has decided to throw off the yoke of foreign rule and alien oppression. She will again take her place in the family of free nations of the world.

“If Lhc .desire of the Indian people for the precious, inherent right of liberty is met with ugly, unyielding military resistance, England, which has been the cause of more wars than any other nation in world history, must again resume responsibility for the misery and suffering which will ultimately result. Threat of Armed Action. “We shall obtain oid’ liberty by peaceful means if possible. If not, we shall resort to the means employed by the American people in 1776.” Edward Thompson, lecturer in Bengali at Oxford, and guest professor in English at Yassar, declared that the choice before India is not a choice between freedom and slavery. “It is,” he said, “a choice between becoming a weaker Mexico or a more ridiculous China, or becoming a selfrespecting country." Professor Thompson deplored lhc prcscnlation of the situation jn India so that it encouraged the American people lo think that they were now seeing the scenes of their own revolution re-enacted before .their eyes.