LONDON: Sir Alfred Watson, writing in this week’s “Great Britain and the East” urges that “the time for a move in India has arrived. Whatever the announced outcome of the talks between Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Jinnah,” he says, “they will certainly bring no peace to the political controversy in India … Yet time slips by. Before India realises it, there may be an end of the war and with it the necessity of constitution making with holding of elections that must precede the setting up of a constituent assembly. We cannot continue the present systems of Government … It is a system in which the British Government is loaded with the blame for everything that goes wrong in India while not possessing either the administrative force or governing power that would enable it to put things to rights. Britain has gone too far along the path of giving India self-Government to recover its old grip upon the affairs of the country…

[Meanwhile, it was reported from S.H.A.E.F. — the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expe­ditionary Force — that] The suspension of six war correspondents who broadcast from Paris on August 21 without submitting stories to censorship has been reduced from 60 days to 30, it is announced here tonight [Sept 17]. — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, September 18th, 2019