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Saturday, March 4, 1944

The Indian people must be mobilized for
the coming Allied offensive in Burma
which is designed to reopen the vital lines
of supply to China through granting of

their demands for national government.

roa Road and thus provide
her artery over which badly
fed supplies must be fea
‘a's armies. The offensive in
jna must be set off with the
'= of India’s mighty reservoir

f-orale and physical manpower
meayieal the devastating death-
ie ;

to fascism in Asia.

Feith the appointment of Lord
as supreme com-
der of the Burma offensive,
‘hopes of the Indian people
to a new high. They antici-
J that with his appointment
te come a change in the men-
‘7 of officials at .New Delhi
that their long passionate

ne to’ participate fully with.

Allies in destroying Japanese

"sm would be fulfilled. But

Fcold hand of Whitehall fell
fily upon the effort of both

Wavell, the new Viceroy
' Lord Mountbatten, the su-

Fie commander. ~

e Indian people consistenly
it said that India “is the
of Operation,” rather than
) the Indian people comprise
dynamic force that must,
the Allies, cut the path to
dom +through the jungle of
da fascism, of which the Jap-
2 militarists are the criminal
in Asia.
e@
continued reluctance of

prerogatives of colonial rule

Padian defines “itself sharply
Wy against a background of

2diate Allied inilitary needs

}sia to combat the anti-Unitea
ns “propaganda
sJapanese in Burma against
‘fascist unity in India. This —
Pxibility of colonial tery pol-
jhas placed Allied strategy
jsia ata disadvantage because
#is been successful in disas-
‘ting the people, the prepon-
fat powerarm of any nation,
4} the government. This pol-
Beontinuing as it is,

aimed by

thrusts
learned
where yet
spectre of the past dangles

historical lessons,

Gmittently among freedom’s

ers.

has -been made indelibly
in EKurope and in the Paci-
impelling

Swift, direct and barbarous
EK upon the people of any
m thus divided. It is impor-
for us to be constantly re-

By R. LAL SINGH
- Editor of India News

iE sreat Allied offensive from India against the Japanese
} in Burma must be rolling before summer comes, lest the
on hsoon again intervenes andl postpones the full destruction
Bi apanese domination of the people of Burma and Malaya
_ later date. It must be on the way in order to reopen the

minded that this path led to the
€asy conquest by Hitler and Hiro-
hito of all the lands now sub-
ject to Nazifascist dominance. In
Asia, Malaya, Burma and the
Dutch Hast Indies are striking
examples. India, or any part of
it, must not repeat the tragedy
of thése lands and their unhappy
inhabitants.

It is true that the present set-
up of the bureaucracy in India
hinders unity and the continued
infiexible tory colonial policy,
long outmoded nad bankrupt of
statesmanship, is incapable of
dealing with the immediate need
in India of releasing the powerful
potential forces into the ranks of
the Wnited Nations. But thrusting
the burden of responsibility upon
the British people and seeking to
prove the United Nations as in-
sincere is not in the best interest
ef Indian freedom, nor is it In
the interest of the great struggle
of all peoples fighting for sur-
vival and liberation against the

enemy.

This way lies the path of the
enemy. This is the defeatist pol-
icy, the way of the obstruction-
ists and the mind that breeds the
weapon for Hitler and all his
counterparts. This is not the way
to Indian freedom, but to con-
tinuied. division in the ranks of
the Indian people in the face of
great crisis.

UT there are individuals and
organizations in America and
in Britain whose prime objective,
it seems, is to prove that World

“War Two is a giant struggie be--

tween empire’s survival and that
the peoples of all lands are miere
pawns in a vicious circle of
Yaaneuver and counter maneuver.
They seek to divide the people
of the United Nations by shout-
ing to the high heavens of the

-insineerity of the coalition of gov-
“ernments committed to the full

prosecution of war until fascism
and all its evil roots are de-
stroyed.

Moscow, Cairo and Teheran,
the confidence united there, the
declarations made -to all peoples
everywhere have served little, if
at all, to bring clarity and vision
upon the final goal of all human-
ity as far as these misled psycho-
paths are concerned. Some of
them having suffered the pains
of the last depression, are still
victims.

The discussions at Moscow
riade possible the conference at
Cairo. These two historic meet-
ings brought forth Teheran and
the declarations which have now
become unalterably the faith of
all nations, large and small. They

India and the Teher

Cay

Sailors af the Royal Indian Navy, like those shown
here, are playing a considerable part in the war.

were born of the bestial and most
brutal oppression unleashed upon
humanity by the enemy in the
last few years.

Colonial and semii-colonial men,
and women, and children in the
democracies haye lived and are
still living under terror of Ger-
man and Japanese fascist im-
perialism. The enemy, bearing
the sceptre of the Axis, stands
ready to shatter the hopes of
liberty and freedom from the
breast of nine hundred millions
of people of the Pacific and Asia
as they haye desperately tried
10 do in Europe.

To tolerate those who con-
sciously seek to drive a wedge
of disunity in the coalition of
resistance to the enemy, is to
sacrifice the peoples of all those
nations who are committed to
elimination of tyranny, intoler-
ance and oppression, upon the
altar of the Axis. This is a guilt
no sane person may bear and he
who is prey to the agents of
Hitler and his partners, is traitor
te the cause of human liberty
and freedom.

But-in.forging the greater link
between communities and na-
tions for common resistance, we
are to be reminded that the di-
seases of the spat are to be elim-
inated in order to widen now the
path of communication on an
equal and friendly basis between
peoples--who have oered their
allianee fully in a united action
with the Allies in order to attain
swiftly our common objectives.
The people of India, representing
over one-fifth of the human race,
must be freed of the shackles of
an old imperial colonial policy
in order to fully cooperate in the
destruction of fascism.

LMOST two centuries of bit-
terness and resentment, of
frustrated hopes and dejection,
make the. Indian people stand
as obstacles rather than as a
dynamic force aimed at the heart

of Japan’s aims to carve an em-
pire in Asia.

As a beginning to the end of
tory complacency in relation to
India and the colonies, it is well
to digest deeply the four joint
Statements declared at Teheran.
The magnitude of their effect
upon the present and the exten-
Sion of that effect into the far
future means that the liberating
forces generated at Teheran must
now become effective among the
subject colonial peoples for full
and united resistance to the
world enemy.

But there is still need for a
clearer grasp in America of the
real and positive side of the In-
dian question. The present confu-
sion is due ccensiderably to White-
hall’s official stand on India, and
the tremendous publicity given it
in America through the British
Information Service.

The information thus diffused
regates India’s capacity for war
cn the basis of disunity while
some sections of imperial thought

ave even been bold enough to .

submit that the people’s war in
Asia can be won without the
participation of India’s full nu-
merical potential strength. Both
of these statements do not square
with the facts and both are dan-
gerous statements which the ene-

my may use with devastating ef- -

fect upon the Indian people.

They come, it is necessary to
point out, from that section of
the British government so
weighted down by the colonial-
imperial lethargy that made Mu-
nich possible, that now, despite
the march of events finds diffi-
culty in breaking completely
from the past.

Nevertheless, the same cabinet
containing representatives of this
section, it must be remembered,
was responsible for unshackling
colonial preregatives in China.
It is capable similarly of relin-
gquishing rigidity of that identical
policy in relations to India and
the war for liberation.

n Concord

4 heen deadlock existing in India
today is the net result of
Whitehall’s decadent colonial pol-
icy, a policy which refused to
welcome the offer of coopera-
tion based upon negotiations for
a settlement of Indo-British re-
lationship now, and_—looking to-
ward the future welfare: of both
nations in a strong world al-
liance.

Instead, the “Congress’ demand
was met by repression and a
stubborn “no change” policy on
the part cf Whitehall and New
Delhi. But Whitehall and New
Delhi cannot have failed to ab-
sorb the now historical facets
which lay bare the Nazi-Fascist ~
“master plan,’ and which showed
that the nature of armed inva-
sion was not predicated by race,.
color, or the economic standard
of the nation or nations now sub-

. ject to the Axis.

The leaders of the Indian Na-
tional Congress, since the emer
gence in Hurope of Nazi-Fascism,
followed a consistent, conerete
and practical policy toward ag-
gression. They stood adamantly
against any appeasement policy
toward fascism and they have
appealed to the democracies of
the West to recognize India’s
pledge of full and free coopera-
tion in an alliance for collective
resistance to aggression.

The Congress Resolution as
long ago as September 14, 1939,
laid down such a basic plan of
cooperation, India was ready then
te accept freedom with practical
limitations which would be con-
tingent upon Britain’s war and
peace aims. Again in June, 1940,
when France fell before fascist
intrigue, India offered her full
cooperation on the basis of 2
rational government which Con-
gress felt was in the growing
world crisis, necessary for total
mobilization of India’s potential
resources for total global war.

The Cripps mission, which was
a reply to the crucial needs of
the hour, it is admittedly ironi-
cally by the Indian sovernment’s
London office, failed on the spe-
cifie issue of a national govern-
ment.

It is necessary to state these
historic facts since there is an
ever existing threat which hangs
over the head of a sister United
Nation. It is therefore the duty
of each one of us to find an
immediate solution for breaking
the Indo-British deadlock which
is, without doubt, an ever in-
ereasing obstacle in the path of
speedy victory in Asia.

e

A271 now on the part of
British and American labor
end progressive organizations is
of paramount importance.

The importance of freedom to
India now would galvanize In-
Gta’s potential anti-Fascist forces
for victory. 1t would broaden the
march of freedom’s fighters and
the effect upon the unity and
morale of all Asia’s and the Pa-
cific’s dominated lands would
paralyze the efforts of the enemy.

Victory must be speeded now
by unleashing the liberating
forces for war and for peace
among the colonial and semi-
eolonial nations. Teheran de-
mands it because the solemn de-
clarations made at Teheran re-

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