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The Calcutta Weekly Notes March 17 1947

1947

Besides holding formal joint conferences with the representatives of both the orgnisations the Mission held separate and elosed-door conferences sometimes with the members of the Congress and sometimes with the members of the League. [...] Yet in breach of the solemn promise made by the British Socialist Premier the worthy representatives of His Brittanic Majesty's Government not only allowed but carefully and deliberately encouraged a minority to veto the advance of the majority. [...] tained the view that the decisions of the sections should in the absence of an agreement to the contrary be taken by a simple majority vote of the representatives in the sections This view has (been accepted by the Muslim League but the Congress have put forward a different view "V. [...] The Cabinet Mission in paragraphs 5 to 11 of their.proposals examined the Muslim League's argument in favour of the establishment of an undefined Pakistan from the administrative economic and military points of view and came to the coclusion that the division of India would entail the gravest dangers. [...] In other words there is the possibility of not one but a plethora of sovereign states coming into existence and it is the British Government and the British Government alone who even at the end of British rule in India are to be the final arbiters as to who are to be the recipients of power! A BAGFUL OP PLEDGES.
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