The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
Independence In Week India Has Demanded
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tee working committee and lead- ing woman Nationalist, confirmed to the United Press that Gandhi would tell the Viceroy the time and manner of a civil disobedience movement.
 "It will be the usual saluting be- fore fencing" she said.
 Complete unanimity prevails among the members of the commit tee regarding 8 decision. Had the United Nations or Britain responded to congress appeals the situation would be different
 We would have gone all out for the war effort. But now we have no alternative but to go our way. We can not fight for the defense of a country which is not ours yet and whose freedom is not in sight"
 Congress circles intimated that Q new and more comprehensive reSo- lution was being prepared for de- cision by then working committee, alongside with formal endorsement of the so-called Wardha resolution demanding Independence.
 It was understood that Gandhi would consult committee leaders this afternoon, to advise them ic high secrecy of the details of pro- posed disobedience campaign intend- ed to embarrass Britain and its de- fense ofIndia
 Gandhi, spiritual leader of the Nationalist movement, and Java harlal Nehru, most powerful mem- Der of the working committee of the all-India congress, issued angry statements here denouncing the publication of Gandhi,s proposal to negotiate with the Japanese. Gandhi May Get Power But after a meeting here last night of the working committee, or executive, b was said that plans for civil disobedience in an attempt to force Great Britain to grant Indian Independence now were unchanged and that 1t was likely Kandhi would be given full power to act
 Close associates of Gandhi said he intended to call 8 one day shut down of business in India and then later call & continuous national strike. They said he also would urge NationalistS whom the British might arrest as agitators not to re- main peaceful prisoners bu to break Jail rules. Always before Kandhi had urged adherence to such rules. oBth Nehru and Maulana Azad, president of the working committee, have been won over to Kandhi's mass-movement plans on the ground that Great Britain and the United Nations have not responded favor ably to demands that India be hand ed over to the Ntionalists. | All-India congress leaders, hold ing a fateful meeting here, support ed Gandhi in the statement that the United Nations were threaten ing" them and expressed "painfufl regret" that their promise to co-op- operate with the United Nations in event that they were given control of India had not been appreciated.
 Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, liberal Nationalist leader, proposed the calling of Q conference of all In- dian elements and the postpone ment of Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
 But 1t was said that even if Gandhi accepted such a proposal, he would ask for 8 clear decision by the working committee on civil diSobedience and would seek per- sonal power to precipitate 1t at any time he saw fit.
 No Watering
 President Azad said after a meet ing the working committee last night that nothing had happened to weaken the Nationalist determi- nation to call for civil obedience if immediate independence were not granted on terms which would give Hindu Nationalists full control of the country's 100000 900 people.
 Congress leaders made no e.IS>mpt to conceal their rage at the publi- cation of documents seized in q po- lice raid on the Congress head quarters at Allahabad, including Gandhi'S statement that If India were freed her first step would probably be to negotiate with Among them are past practices Of Issuing bonds for capital improve ments, thus burdening future tax t1averg with h0f4d fAdenlrtiOnR and