Release Of C ongress Leaders
Demand Of India People

BOMBA Y—The victory
has raised high hopes regarding

India’s freedom,”’
Trades Untiiog Congress and a
member of the central Legislat-
ive Assembly, told Allied Labor
News this week. “T have com-
Piete confidence in the genuine-

_- Less of the Labor party’s inten-

tion to give India freedom,” he
said, adding that India “has
00d reason to welcome the ap-
pointment of F. Pethick Law-
rence, a sincere lover of freedom,
as Secretary of State for India.”

Because the war in Europe is
over “and the defeat of Japan is
assured,” Joshi stated, the new
British government “need not
pursue any further the search
for the solution to an interim
government, but should at once
take up the 1942 proposal of Sir

. Stafford Cripps for a constituent

asembly. For that purpose the
government should decide on
elections for the- central and
provincial legislatures, intro-
ducing adult suffrage to enable
the masses to exercise their due
influence.

“If, in the constitudnt assem-
bly, the majority and minority
communities do not come to an
agreement,” Joshi continued,
“the Cripps plan gives the right
of self-determination to the pro-

vinces to Satisfy the Muslim
community. If the proposals of
the majority in the constituent
assembly are not agreed to by
the scheduled castes. and other
minorities, parliament should ar-
bitrate to protect other minori-
ties.

“Parliament has to act as ar-
bitrator if agreement between
the Indian peoples is not prac-
tical. But any delay in giving
freedom to India on the ground
of lack of agreement is unjusti-
fied. .If parliament lays down a
constitution providing for free.
dom for India, giving to the Mus-
jim community and other minori-

_ ties such measures of protection

as it considers just, I have no
doubt that either the Indian
communities will arrive at a

« « - Compliments .. . :

Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas

RICHARDS and HASTINGS
Vancouver, B.C.

of the British Labor party
solution of the problem of

N. M. Joshi, secretary of the All-India

mutual agreement or will ulti-
mately accept parliament’s con-
stitution as they accepted the
communal award
MacDonald, when he was Labor
premier.”

Joshi proposed as “Immediate
steps” the “lifting of the ban on
Congress organization, the re-
lease of all political prisoners
and, for a brief interim period,
reconstitution of the executive
council on as fair a basis as Vic-
eroy Lord Wavell thinks best.”

of Ramsay |.

win the peace, making it possible
for the people who have fought
and worked for the defeat of
fascism to realize the fruits of
that victory in continued secur-
ity at home and on the job? Or
will the monopolists of Canada
and the other Allied countries
succeed in snatching that victory
away?

‘The attempt to appease the
Japanese militarists last week-
end, when U.S. reactionaries suc-
ceeded in forcing consideration,
even for a few hours, of Japan’s
proposal to surrender condition-
ally and retain Hirohito on the
imperial throne, resulted in the
strange picture of a surrendered
nation continuing its fight on
several fronts, especially against

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Indian Congress Leader

were even given semi-official ap-
proval here in Canada in the
statement of’ Major-General Bert

ada’s Pacific army. But not one
-of the specious reasons put for-
ward for maintaining Hirohito
on his throne could obscure the
fact that what all these appeas-
ers desired was to maintain Jap-
anese monopoly capitalism in-
tact.

For the monarchy in Japan is
not just a mystical, purely relig-
ious institution above and apart
from the political life of that

archies in Europe, the Japanese
monarchy has survived its histor-
ically feudal basis by becoming
an integral and leading part. of
Japanese monopoly capitalism.
upon which the fascist-militarist
clique is based. Through arrange-
ments worked out ever since the
latter part of the. 19th century,
when Japan began its rise as a
great power, the monarchy has
become a leading shareholder
and partner in such great Japan-
ese trust as Mitsui- and Mitsu-
bishi, and together with these
imperialist monopolies a domin-
ant factor in Japan’s economic
and political life.

Any attempt to try and separ-
ate Emperor Hirohito from the
rest of the fascist-imperialist

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nation. Like a number of mon-.,

Soviet troops in Manchuria, who
were still battling the Japanese
forces some two days after the
official surrender date. This tac-
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Two questions immediately be-
came issues both as a result of
the appeasement move and now
by the ending of the war itself.

® First, that the labor move-
ment and progressives generally
are going to have to take a much
sharper position in the settle-

of State Jospeh Grew is leading
a strong movement to retain Em-
peror Hirohito and whatever pos-
sible of the regime which he
heads.

There was close connection be-
tween the attempt to appease
Japan and the state of affairs in
China as the war ended. Follow-

Unit;
ring on the heels of .¢
ettacks on the so-called;
munist areas of China by =
Kai-shek’s troops, the ¢:
issimo this week was repc.|
having “warned” the Com.
led Chinese against accepj_
‘surrender of Japanese fo
taking over areas contro’
Japan. This amounted ce
ing less than the promo,
civil war by Chungking. A
continued support and ,
agement given to -Chian,
shek by the American s
partment, and indirectly
Canadian government, is)?
ly related to the appeaser
Japan. A state of virtua
war exists in China to
which American-British}
ian policy is in good ist
sponsible, and it is certaj |
without that military an z
cal backing, the Chungiay
actionaries would be throy
of office in short order. a

‘These were only some,
problems demanding an }
ate solution with the way
But the need for their
ment could not obseure th
that victory over the las
ber of the Axis had been
ed in a conclusive manner 4
was hope for the future 74
great fact.

ing their fire especially on those
appeasement groups in Canada
as well as America and Britain
who have made clear their in-
tentions of fighting for the
status quo in the Orient.

@ Second, the fact must be
hammered home that Japan will
only’ be finally defeated, and
peace in the Pacific assured,
when Hirohito is not only re-
moved from the throne of Japan
but tried and sentenced as a war
criminal along with the rest of
the warlords. Japan’s fascist
leaders have lost the military
phase of their war. But they
stand an even chance of winning
the political phase of it.
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