Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-27
BY sAILENDRA NATH CHOSE
President American Branch, Indian
National Congress
(written fer the Cnited Press)

NEW YORK, Dee. 27.-TLe In.
dian National congress, voicing NE
sentiment of majority of Il e
people of India, viii declare FOR
complete separation from England,
tor independence and for the in
,Hcdiate establishment of revolu-
tionary government in India.
The action will be taken when the
plcnary sessions Of the congress be
gin at Lahore on Sunday.
Such is the only conclusion that
can be drawn from resolution do
filming Swaraj (the home rule gov
crnmcnt) as meaning "absolute in
deTcrdCacc," which, with the ap.
proval of Mahatma Gandhi will be
introduced in the important subic -
committee of the congress.
Drafting of the resolution result
cd from the breakdown of the con
ference between Gandhi and Lord
Irwin, British viceroy for India st
Delhi last Monday Lord Irwin, an.
Xious to placatc Indian sentiment, =,
visited London last July and after
four months mancuvcrs, persuaded
the labor government to make dec.
laration Of policy.
Lord Irwin then announced in the
house Of lords that dominion status
ultimately would be granted to In
dia. He invited Indian leaders to n
round table conference with British
government representatives in Lon
don next year. The offer of domin-
ion status and the invitation to IL
conference were accepted by Gandhi
and other Indian leaders, including
Jawaharlal Nehru, young president
elect of the Indian national congress,
provided the government accept the
following demands:
j. Immediate release and general
amnesty for all political prisoners in
India.
>. Assurance from England that
the London round-table conference
would consider the form in which
dominion status should be granted,
rather than debate whether it should
be granted.
Subhas Chandra Bose, president of
the Bengal provincial congress ana
an active advocate for independence,
dcmurrcd, however. He objected
that accepting eventual" dominion
status without reasonable time linn
it set for making it effective would
have no meaning and would tend to
settle the nationalist movement
lie gained strong support. The mod
crate Gandhi was bewildcred by the
shift of public sentiment and called
a conference of Indian leaders to re-
consider the situation.
At the conference, lndia's accept
ance of the governments offer was
qualified by the proviso that the
government must accept the Indian
demands in full before convcning of
the Lahore congress.
A United Press dispatch from
Calcutta yesterday indicated Mah.
atma Gandhi, the revered and mod
erately- inclined leader of the ma.
:ionalists, had reached agreement
with the extremists of the native
congress and all were agreed on a
demand for complete independence
If such a declaration is issued at
Lahore next week, it will be his
torically comparable to the Amc,i.
can declaration of independence,
with the notable exception that In
oia is not prepared for organized
armed resistance. Their fight for
freedom will take rather a passive
form, with refusal to pay taxes OF
participate in the legislative assem-
bly, under British rule. The situation
is naturally fraught with extreme
danger of violence.