Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-09

to embarrass them to the utmost.
There is a difference, because there
is a difference between the new in
vasion and the old. But there is
another difference. AS far as I am
concerned, in spite of the language
of high authority it uses, the Brit
ish invasion is played out affair,
and the new invasion may not be
a played out affair -.
g.. A fundamental factor today
is the distrust or dislike of the Brit
ish government. It is not a pro-
Japanese, it is an anti-British SEN
timent. That may occasionally lead
individuals to an expression of pro-
japanese views. This is short-sighted.
This is a slaves sentiment. 1t dis
tresses me that any Indian should
talk of the japanese liberation of
India. Japan comes here either for
Imperialist reasons straight out, or
to fight the British governmental
to liberate."
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, presi-
dent of the All-India Congress party,
addressed the opening session of the
Congress with the words: "There is
no greater danger than to welcome
the Japanese or the Germans, &C
lively or passively. l consider that
it would be a crime against history
and the future of India if the In
dams welcomed an aggressor. If we
welcomed the Japanese invaders it
would seal the fate of India. If,
despite our declaration asking the
japanese not to come to India, the
Japanese invade India, the only way
in which we shall meet them is with
Let the japanese
clearly realize that we are in no
mood for experiment with any new
powers of domination"
In his paper Harlan" on April
IL, 1912 Gandhi, too, impresses on
his readers that there can be no
peace with the aggressor: 'Non-Vio-
lent resisters," he says, "will GER
tainly die wherever they are, but
they will not bend the knee before
the aggressor. Non-Violent resisters
will not be deceived by promises.
They will not ask deliverance from
the British through the help of third
party. They believe implicitly in
their own way of fighting and not
another !. /. But resisters may find the
japanese utterly heartless, and that
they do not care how many they kill.
Non-violent resisters will have won
the day in as much as they will have
preferred determination to submis-
sion :"
The question which agonizes all
those who have been active in the
struggle for India's freedom ever
since the end of the first World war,
who fully realize that the cause of
India is the very cause of mankind
is: "What, if anything, can be done
to free the situation from the narrow
pass in which it is stuck? What, if
anything, can be done to have con-
versations between the British gov
eminent and the Indian people come
into play again."
One of the Indian princes, the
Maharajah of Indore-certainly not
under suspicion of being a member
of the Congress party-appealed to
President Roosevelt for joint Amer
lean, Chinese and Russian arbitra-
ton in the autonomy dispute between
India and Britain. Pledging himself
without question to abide by any de-
cision" the Maharajah proposed that
two representatives of each country
mentioned 60 to India to present a
solution. The ruler of one of India
most important states speaks of him.
self as ''by the accident of birth a
ruling prince" but IAN International
ist and a democrat by conviction"