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sST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942. POST-DISPATCH PAGE 4C a-a-isesas. 1. U. Indian and British Views on India Outlined in Radio Forums a free country, Indians would ac the audience, Singh asserted that; 1 ill VO1 the right of the Indian people to Continued From Page One.

to retake that territory he asserted. "If a political settlement is made in India, on the other hand, there will be millions of Indians who would most willingly die In defense of their country. We Indians want to fight the Japanese. Ideologically, we are wholeheartedly with the United Nations. It is up to you Americans, along w)th liberal Englishmen, to bring pressure upon British Tories to recognize fight the Japs and the Indians at the same time." If India 1b lost because Britain would not make a settlement with the Indian leaders, then the war will be "prolonged 10, 13, 20 years," Singh declared.

"American boys who are playing In their nurseries today will have to bear arms and fight with three or four million American soldiers govern themselves, to promise them complete freedom after the war, and also to demand that immediate steps be taken for mediation in the present deadlock." Views on Mediation. Singh asserted that the people of China, India, America and England want mediation, "Why in the name of all that's holy do the British Tories turn a deaf ear to this plea?" "Indians have not asked that freedom be given to them today," he continued. "Indians want only a declaration of freedom without any 'ifs and I make bold to state that if, today a declaration were to be made in the House of Commons In London that exactly one year from the date of the cessation of hostilities, India would be stop using violence and agree to negotiate." But Indians do not trust the leaders of Britain and Britain's leaders dp not trust the heads of Indian nationalism, Schuman continued, and it is folly to expect agreement now between them. He insisted that it is a problem for the United Nations, "the only hope of saving India for our cause." "We in America can and should ask our Government to propose publicly to our Allies in Britain, India, China and Russia, the establishment of a United Nations tribunal to work out, within a definite time limit, a plan for a provisional and responsible war government for India within 'the framework of the British commonwealth and the United Nations," he asserted. "The principal United Nations and the principal Indian political groups must be represented on cept the promise without any guarantees from President Roosevelt." Singh added that no Indian wanted British or American troops to withdraw from India.

Indian leaders repeatedly had stated, he said, that the "quit India" slogan applied politically, not physically. He quoted from the Indian National Congress resolution of 1942, "the Congress therefore is agreeable to the stationing of armed forces of the Allies In India and the proposal for the withdrawal of British power from India was never intended to mean the physical withdrawal of Britons from India." "India with her 390 million people one-fifth of the human race with her most strategic position on the continent of Asia, with. vitally important raw materials, industrial capacity, man power, is too great a prize for us to gamble Singh concluded. FLAGS PENNANTS BUNTING, ETC. it was untrue that the Indian Congress had ever expressed a desire for a Japanese victory, and quoted Gandhi as saying that Indians were more interested in keeping Japanese out of India than Englishmen.

He was greeted with applause but Polak quickly responded with a quotation from Gandhi saying he was willing to negotiate with Hitler or Hirohito, adding another quote from Nehru, India Congress leader, to the effect that the Allies could not win the 'war. "I've never seen it," Singh said. "Well, you missed that one," Polak replied. Schuman interrupted at this point to say that the only answer was a United Nations tribunal and evoked applause from the audience and Singh. Polak responded that a tribunal was unnecessary, that if the Indian leaders would get together and decide on a government that "we (the British) will get out." Heatedly Singh replied: "They fc 'm 1 11 number Vjfxor qu.Wy.

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Wallace or Wendell Willkie shoulder with the United Nations against the Axis. Indians believe in the teachings of Lincoln and (here the applause was tremen Washington. Indians want to be Continued on Next Page. guard your budget like a dous). Indian Congress must call off its disobedience campaign.

Recommendations of the tribunal must be binding for the duration of the war. given the chance to fight and to die for freedom and democracy." Polak's Reply. Polak, for the British, took the military secret in these In the words of Woodrow Wil son, as applied to Russia in 1918: "The treatment accorded to India rostrum to answer Singh. He admitted that an Axis invasion of India threatened, that it was a British problem to defend India, Leaving for Army Must Sell or Rent Before Oct. 19 MY HOME B-room btlniralow In Richmond Height.

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The only question is when and how. "Is this a time to make such far- reaching changes? Let us consider a few facts about India. Most of her. vast population, three times the population of America, is not interested in politics. A quarter are Mohammedans and two-thirds are Hindus.

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