Evening star., 1942-08-09

students to be ready to cease work.
He urged Indian princes to "act
as trustees for their people" and
stop being autocrsts. He already
has said his campaign this time
would include the princes states
as we'll as the areas known as
British India"
Gandhi Appeals to U. s.
Only yesterday morning, before the
civil disobedience resolution was
taken up, Gandhi announced he was
appealing to the United States. In a
letter Ito American friends" to act
while there is yet time" to bring
about independence and ally IN
dians whole -heartedly to the Allied
cause.
He predicted a repetition of the
disasters of Malaga, Singapore and
Burma unless Britain trusts the
people of India to use their liberty
in favor of the Allied cause"
Gandhi complained that he had
been painted as hypocrite and an
enemy of Britain under disguise"
and said nothing he could say would
offset "the false propaganda that
has poisoned American ears"
He said the United States, having
made common cause with Great
Britain, cannot therefore disown
responsibility for ANYTHING that her
representatives do Ii. India
Questions Troops Role.
This same theme appeared in the
address, also yesterday afternoon, of
pudgy Pandit Jivan Lal, from a
rural district near Allahabad.
I'VE are told" said Lal, that
American troops as here as our
guests and we are asked to be nice
to them. Certainly in reply to (Sir
Stafford) Grips appeal to America
we should like to be told on behalf
of President Roosevelt and the
American people what role these
troops are going to play-our guests
or our hangmen."
He asked his hearers to translate
that from Hindustani into English
for the American correspondents
Gandhi said there was no need for
government servants to resign. but
he asked them to notify the govern
ment that they approved the de-
mand of the Congress Party.
In a concluding speech Jawahar-
| lal Nehru. the No. man of the
nationalist movement, declared that
the quit India" resolution was not
threat but an "offer of ,co-opera-
/ ton"
/ Nevertheless, he warned that rbe-
| hind 1t is the certainty that con-
sequences will follow II certain
events do not happen"
''We are on the verge Of a preci-
pice and we are in deadly earnest
about it," he asserted. "The very
act of freeing India will make the
| Allied cause completely right
cause. 1t is only negatively right
just now because Germany is worse
and Japan is worse
IF Japan comes to this country
you and I will sufferer die--not
the people sitting in London, New
] York or Washington
They say we do not know what
Japan is. We know what Japan
is. We know what subjection is
better than any people in the world.
We have had 200 years of it. We
prefer to throw ourselves into the
fire and come out new nation or
be reduced to ashes"
Means Exposure to Axis"
The New Delhi government state
ment noted that "the Congress
Working Committee admit there
may be risks involved And then
continues
They are right. Acceptance of
the resolution must mean the ex-
| posures Of Indiassto an Axis attack
from without.
Internally, withdrawal of Brit
ish rule invites civil war, the COL
lapse of law and order, the out
break of communal feuds and the
dislocation of economic life with
its inevitable hardships."
1t accused the Congress party
leaders of having worked "in the
interests of securing their own DOM
nance and in pursuit of totsli-
tartan policy" and added that they
have consistently impeded the ef-
forts made to bring India to full
nationhood"
But for the resistance of the
Congress party to constructive ef-
forts, India might even now be en-
joying self-government," the state
ment added.
1T is not too much to say that
acceptance of the demand =
must mean the betrayal of the AL
lies whether in or outside India
the betrayal in particular Of Rus
sia and China ="
| 1t urged the people of India tc
unite with the government "in re-
sistance to the present challenge
of party"