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Gandhi To
Lead Move
For Liberty
Loyalty Is Promised Allied
Nations If Britain Gives
Up Power To Rule
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NEW DELHI. Aug — fnrl i'.s
I dominant party today hinted at a
i barter offer to Great Britain
pledging that India would fight
Jap aggression “whole hearted
! !y and unreservedly on the .■ le
of the United Nations" in return
for immediate independence. The
I alternative, the Indian party ;n
j dicated, would be a mass civil
| disobedience campaign of Ind.Ts
' 390.000.000 people against Bnt
' ish rule.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, powerful
Nationalist leader, amid consider
Sable confusion over his inten
tions. is reported to have ad
dressed the Working Committee
of the All-India congress party
an hour and a half after the new
“Barter Resolution” had been
placed before the Working Com
mittee.
Gandhi Given Full Power
Subsequently Vie comm lit' >
drafted a resolution recomme i.
ing that Gandhi be given
I power to lead the civil disc
1 lence campaign if Britain re
I the demand for Indian indep.
i once.
The committee also adopted
1200 word resolution demanding
“the withdrawal of British p
: er so as to enable India to
come an ally of the United Na
tions in the fight against ag
gressors."
It is reported that while the
British have charged that Gandhi
a few days ago declared the first
move of an Independent Indian
government probably would be
to negotiate with Japan. Gandhi
i himself told newspapermen a dif
b rent story. He said he fa\ >r< I
negotiating with Japan to free
(China, or else to “count on the
! stubborn resistance of India’s
j millions;"
I
Appeals To United States
j Gandhi declared that he was
j not at all ashamed of his sug
i gestion that India negotiate with
J Japan in the event that Britain
! withdraw from the govern no fit
I of India. Gandhi said he w as
I appealing to the United S'.ves
j to make Britain grant Iml t’.s
! freedom.
j Gandhi'.- statement about "■ go
; tiations with Japan was wi Men
| in his original draft of the In
jdkm congress resolution asking
| the British to let India g . rn
! herself. The resolution was seized
in a police raid on the offices of
the Congress party at Allasob d.
It was made public by the Brit
ish government with the eim
ment that a majority of the C ti
gress Working Committee tv m
ber.- are app aser.-.
Seizure Is Denounced
Gandhi denounced the se zure
! of the Congress party’s papers
as reprehensible He said the pub
j lication of the original draft of
1 the Congress resolution would
not hurt the party’s prestige in
India. He said that if America
would make Britain withdraw
from India, victory for the Unit
| ed Nations would be sure. Said
Gandhi:
| "I am pleading with till ear
nestness that I believe that Ind i
will be freed of Britain’s im
perialism and that her great gllv
, America will make her do so, and
thus be sure of victory, no mat
i ter how long the struggle.”
{ Gandhi was definite in his de
| nunciation of the British raid on
' the Congress party’s headquar
; ters. He declared that he should
have been consulted before the
British made use of the material
they seized. implying that he
feels the British are attempting
to picture him as an Axis ally.
It is expected in informed quar
ters that this call will be issued
for the disobedience campaign in
about two weeks if Britain re
j jects its proposal of Indian free
dom.
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