LONDON: The Secretary of State for India, Mr. Leopold Amery, in an interview tonight [May 22] flatly denied that he had told Prof. Harold Laski, Vice-Chairman of the Labour Party, during their conversation last week that Pakistan as a solution to the Indian problem was wholly unacceptable to the British Government. Mr. Amery said: “I must at once repudiate the statement attributed to me by Professor Laski as wholly inaccurate ... The position of His Majesty’s Government in this matter has been perfectly consistent throughout, even since the Declaration of April 1942, which still stands, laying down that no province could be compelled to come into an Indian union against its will. The question of Pakistan versus a united India is one which must be settled in India itself, and I certainly never said or suggested that the Pakistan solution was one which His Majesty’s Government could not accept, even though we might not regard it as the most desirable solution.

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Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2020