Evening star., 1942-04-04
Cripps Plan for India
Handicaps Mos|ems,
Party Leader Says
Nehru Denies Report
Chione Koi-shek Urged
Acceptance Of Proposal
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, India, April A.
Declaring that Britain's plan for
postwar Indian dominion status
would keep Moslems tied to the
chariot wheels of Hindudom, !"
Mohammed Ali Jinnah indicated
today that the autonomy propo-
sal already rejected by the pow
erful All-India Congress Party
also was unsatisfactory to his
Moslem League.
Jinnah, leader of India's second
largest party, expressed deep dis
appointment that the entity and
integrity Of the Moslem nation was
not expressly recognized" in the
offer outlined by Sir Stafford Cripps
in an effort to bring the Indians
whole e-heartedly into the war effort.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who as
a past president of the Congress
party is one of the ranking Indian
nationalist leaders, denied report
widely circulated yesterday that he
had received a message from the
Chinese generalissimo, Chang Kai-
shek, urging acceptance Of the
British plan in general.
Personal Letter From Mime. Chang.
He received a letter a few days
ago from Nine. Chang, he said, but
this was a personal note dealing,
among other things, with the pros
pective marriage of his daughter
Indira.
The All-India Congress Working
Committee, representing the most
powerful of the factions to which
proposals for increased Indian au-
tonomy have been addressed by Sir
Stafford, met. for about two hours
today.
DR.. Maulana Abdul Kalan Azad,
Congress president, said the meet
ing considered the situation in
Bengal and Assam in view of the
warfare nearing from Burma and
discussed what lead the organiza-
ton should give the country.
He added that Mohandas K.
Gandhi, revered Nationalist leader,
had delayed his departure from the
capital for a day to give the COM
mittee the benefit of his advice.
Cripps Calls on johnson.
Sir Stafford called at noon on
Louis johnson, personal representa-
tive Of President Roosevelt In India.
Jinnah declared in Allahabad that
the Moslems would never accept any
British plan that would prevent
their achievement of a separate
state.
Addressing the Moslem League, he
referred to the current plan as "a
bare skeleton of proposals which
would obviously require lot of fill
ing in and adjusting before it can
be made acceptable"
1T Is obviously one of those cases, "
he said, where details are and will
become more vital than q bare state
ment Of certain principles"
Insists on Moslems' Rights.
Jinnah said that "the principle Of
Pakistan"-under which Moslems
would have the right Of self-govern-
ing states-"finds only veiled recog-
milton in the document"
Until we know how the right Of
Moslems to keep out or accede
thereto is defined to our satisfac-
ton we do not wish to see the his
tory of Palestine repeated as after
the last war;" the leader said.
"Moslem India will not be salts
fed until the right Of national self
determination is unequivocally rec
ognized and implemented.
I'VE cannot barter away the fu-
ture for the present. while fully
realizing the danger OF foreign az
gression and notwithstanding all
our anxiety to defend India and help
in the prosecution OF the war"