The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-06
INDIA PAVING
 WAY TOTROUBLE
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paign Is launched because Of Mos- lem refusal to support 1t.
 They predicted that in many re- gions there will be uncomfortable violence, both between the Gandhi followers and the British and be- tween the Gandhi supporters and the Moslems.
 Gandhi is reported to have told his followers that his "non-violence" campaign would bring victory with in a month and 1t was generally agreed even among his opponents, that he will be able to muster a large force behind him from among the more than 2O0,000000 Hindus.
 The wizened, loin-clothed Gandhi will address the All-India Congress meeting tomorrow after adoption of the resolution calling for passive resistance and is expected to outline in detail the line of struggle.
 Then, it was reported, he will de- liver 8 virtual ultimatum to the British viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, fixing time-limit for Britain's consent to the independ- ence demand after which the order for "Satyagraha" will be issued.
 But, according to one important Congress member, to expect Brit ish offer of compromise is only "hoping against hope"-especially in view of the militant statements issued in London by Sir Stafford Cripps and secretary of state for India L. s. Amery on behalf of the Churchill government.
 India Leaders Determined
 India's Nationalist leaders, on the other hand, are dtermined not to accept any guarantees of postwar freedom.
 Jawaharlal Pandit Nehru, 6 lead- CT of the Congress, said:
 People talk of giving us guar antee of future freedom. This strug- gle is not for our freedom. India is in imminent danger of aggression and the danger cannot be faced without full freedom. We want free- dom in order that we may prepare to meet the greater struggle for hu- man existence"
 The nationalist leaders also said they were opposed to any round- table conference unless such a con- ference was called after B-itain's consent to free provisional gov ernment in India.
 Gandhi's followers generally agreed today that the civil disobdi- ence campaign, once launched, would not stop until 1t brings either victory for the natiopa ists or col- lapses completely.
 Britain Answers London, Aug. 6. - tJP) - Sir Stafford Cripps, in behalf of the British war cabinet, served notice on Indian Nationalists today that it would not be coerced into granting immediate independence to India and would do its utmost to preserve law and order despite a threatened mass civil disobedience campaign.
 Warning that chaos and perhaps civil war would result if an immed- fate political change were attempt ed, Cripps said:
 we make no threats but we must assert unequivocally that it is our duty to India, to its great minoritieS and to the United Nations to pre- serve law and order until hostilities cease and we can give, as we prom ised, the fullest opportunity for the attainment of self government by the Indian people,"
 Cripps, leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal in the inner war cabinet, who took to India the offer of postwar inds- peQdence which the Nationalists summarily rejected, made his state- ment in the London Times.
 Speaking while the working com- mittee of the Nationalist all-India congress was meeting at Bombay to vote on a mass civil disobedience can paign despite the threat of Jap ane e invasion, Cripps said:
 10 one will expect the British government or the government of India to give way to threats of vio- lence, disorder and chaos"
 He appealed to the Indian people to be patient for a short time While the cause of freedom Is being fought out-not because we want to delay but because the hard facts of war make complete change impos- sible a. the moment.
 No Compromise
 Indicating that the government had given up hope of corloromise with the militant Nationalists, Cripps challenged Nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi'S statement that {e%1 11ysLNo fvN spontaneous by the people and If independence were not granted at once hidden discontent" would ''burst forth into a welcome to the Japanese should they effect a landing"
 My answer to that proposition is that if MT. Gandhi and his congress colleagues were to explain to the In dian people that their freedom was assured before all the world as soon as hostilities cease, and further that freedom depends on the success oi the struggle of the United Nations, then there would be no danger whatever of a burst of welcome to the Japanese.
 "The danger-if danger there be- arises from the attitude and propa- ganda of MT. Gandhi and his friends"
 It was not too late, Cripps said, for the India people to decide upon rapid, ordered progress" but he said regarding the immediate inde- pendence demand:
 Tt is practical in the middle of hard fought war in which the United States of America, China and Britain are exerting all their strength to protect the eastern world from domination by Japan He said the only result would be chaos, that the evil minded could pillage all India and that crime would run riot.