The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 9

Wednesday. December 25, 1940. THE DECATUR REVIEW PAGE NINE' Mexican Rebel Band Surrenders, Is Given Freedom Compromise In India Is Hoped For By Britain By DREW MIDDLETOX Of The Associated Press London The British government, pinning its faith in the ability of Indian leaders to settle differences, is waiting patiently for India to adopt proposals made Aug. 8, 1940, for the future Indian state and for fuller native participation in the war effort. The government's patience, it might be noted, far exceeds that of the man in the street who, living in constant fear of being blown iw "Filf life' rr fik i 1 ft mh India because the police viewed them with "suspicion or disapproval." The prisoners, it says, include Pandit Jawaharalal Nehru, former president of the Nationalist party, the All-India Congress, and ix prime ministers of provincial governments, including another former head of the Congress, C.

R. Raja-gopalachari, who for a time replaced Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Congress party. Three other steps of the liberal weekly's "Indian platform" follow: 1. Accept the offer of moderate leaders Sir Tej Bahadar Sapru and M.

R. Jayakar to mediate between the Hindus and Moslems. 2. Instruct the viceroy of India to reorganize collective responsibility of Indian members of an enlarged executive council, making it in effect a cabinet responsible to the legislative assembly. 3.

Embody a pledge to grant Indians the right to determine their own constitution immediately after the war. in parliamentary resolutions. The resolutions should stipulate that all Indian creeds are entitled to equal rights, but must not arm the minority with the right of veto. In the meantime, the weekly holds, India through a national government should enjoy all rights and dignities of a dominion, leaving to the future the elaboration of a constitution. There are almost as many solutions to the Indian problem offered in Britain as in India.

The government, rebuffed by the Indians' failure to agree, nevertheless is laboring hard for a vital preliminary agreement between Indian politicos. L. S. Mery, Secretary for India, is convinced "the final word has not yet been said" on Britain's offer and that there is a sufficient number of people in India "en to bits, doesn't give a fig for India freedom. Even labor, which once brooded over its Indian brethren, pays little attention to the present situation.

The government offers India a 1 "free and equal partnership" in the British commonwealth at the end of the war but would leave forma tion of the Indian state to the Indians themselves the unreconciled Hindus and Moslems. The policy of the government steers between two extremist views on India. On one hand are reactionaries. military, political and industrial leaders, who advocate a "strong hand" in India. This would mean a larger garrison than at present, rigid censorship and probably conscription of labor for war Liberal Britain, speaking through the ''New Statesman and Nation," bewails the present state of affairs and presents a four-point plan to replace the August 1940 proposals which it calls "sincere but clumsy." dowed with the spirit of patience.

tolerance and compromise'' to cre-atc "what both countries desire This weekly demands the release a new constitution for India." of "many thousands'' imprisoned in Season's Greetings FROM THE PRESSMEN Who Print Your Herald-Review Arthur E. Gross Joe Schlem Claude SrroRRins Robert L. Delanry Roy Bridges Johnny Krck Sam Wiggins Edward Thorpe Arthur Yobskl Carl Hale Roy Gates and- cartridges they surrendered. The helmet at the right was said to have been taken by the rebels after a brush with reprisals for political uprisings. Left, a rebel sub-lieutenant with the band's "mascot." Top right, part of the band of 100.

Here's the surrender of a Mexican rebel band near Villa do Casas, Mexico, recently. They were freed under President Manuel Avila Camacho's promise that there would be no federal troops. Bottom right, some of. the guns (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO) It Starts The Big Event of The Year 1 the Alton railroad underpass and for approximately a mile at the south junction with route 121. Thursday "drive at 'your own risk" signs.

Barricades have been removed from the junctions of the belt line and routes 121 and 66. Bids have been received by the state highway department for the widening of the belt line into a four lane road throughout its entire length. Work is not expected to get underway until late spring. At present the by-pass four lane at Lincoln North Belt Line Open to Traffic Lincoln (Staff) With grading and construction 'irk on the shoulders still underway, the route 66 belt line skirting Lincoln on the north is open for the convenience of traffic. The has been Dosted with ROCKFORD MAN KILLED Rockford (AP) Lawrence A.

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