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present
government was “responsible for
the widespread corruption that
prevails in the country, for the
gToss mismanagement of the
food and cloth problem and the
supreme: tragedy of the Bengal
famine” of 1943.

Despite the government’s re-
cord, the resolution of the work-
ing committee added, “it is de-
clared that, pending the elec-
tions and for many months at
least, this incompetent and cor-
rupt administration shall con-
tinue its wmisrule.” Asserting
that the British proposals ad-
vanced little that was new, the
resolution added: “Neither the
end of the war nor a change in
government in Great Britain ap-
pear to have resulted in any real
change in British policy toward
India, which seems to be based
on delaying every advance and
attempting to create new prob-
lems and fresh complications.

“Tt is significant that there is
no mention of the independence

Latest British Offer

incompe-
made last

of India, and nothing short of
independence can be acceptable
to the Congress and the coun-
try,” it continued. “The pro-
posals of the British govern-
ment become in context still
more significant indications of
their desire to hold on to power
in India as long as they pos-
sibly can and with all the means
and methods at their disposal.”

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has
charged Britain with “wanton
suppression” of the independ-
ence movement in 1942 when
Congress leaders and members
were arrested after the party
had demanded that Britain quit
India. Former Congress presi-
dent Sadar Vallabhai Patel de-
celared that the government had
lost its right to govern when it
permitted the Bengal famine,
which he estimated cost 3,000,-
000 lives.

Insisting~on a specific inde-
pendence plan, Nehru stated con-
cerning the British proposals
for a Constituent Assembly for
India after elections, that Con-
gress favored an assembly only
if it had final power to make

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decisions and determine its own
plan of action. He condemned
the British veto and said he did
not expect the British JLabor
government to go much further
en the India question than did
the Churchill government, add-
ing: “Attlee’s government will
go as far as the people push
them.” Patel asserted that “In-
dia will secure freedom despite
the Attlees and Churchills.”

Nehru also strongly criticized
the Muslim League, declaring:
“Every time we have gone to
the Muslim League we have re-
ceived kicks. We never again
shall go to the Muslim League
with folded hands. We shall fight
the Muslim League. We shall =o
to the Muslim masses and hear
their complaints and serve them.
Nobody doubts where the Mus-
lim masses are. Let those who
doubt where they are follow me
into, the villages. They will see
that the poorest Muslim is with
the Congress.”

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He also suggested a tempor-
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HILLMAN, TOLEDANO

HIT DELAY
Sharp replies to Citrine were

made by Hillman and Vicente

Lombardo Toledano, president of
the Confederation of Latin Am-
erican Workers. “Failure to
emerge from this conference
with a permanent world -la-
bor organization would in my
judgment be disastrous,” Hill-
man said. “Bear in mind that
at San Francisco we were told
we could not have representa-
tion (in the United Nations
Organization) because ‘you have
not set up a permanent organ-
ization.’ It is unthinkable that
we again approach the govern-
ments and have them say: ‘You
still don’t have a permanent
organization.” It is imperative
that the voice of world labor be
heard immediately.”

Toledano also urged the im-
mediate establishment of a per-
manent organization, saying:
“If we do not succeed in estab-
lishing the WFTU, all the ex-
perience of the war will be wast-

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