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...Indians all posts (except Defense) in India's Executive Council-the equivalent of a national cabinet-"on a balanced representation of the main communities, including equal proportions of Moslems and caste Hindus." The door was left open for the native states, but there would be no coercion. Dominion status, as promised in the Cripps proposals, was still the goal. The Wavell Plan brought it almost within reach...
...Next, Dominion Status. The stakes were greater than India itself, for they included the Empire and the world. The Wavell Plan was the first step toward Dominion status. When that was accomplished, India would become an equal partner in the Commonwealth, free (if she so desired) to secede from the Crown. Was Britain not risking "the brightest jewel of the British Crown?" Indians were not Britons linked by ties of blood and sentiment to the islands in the distant northern...
Perhaps. But Dominion status would confer undeniable advantages. India would join a free concert of nations who wielded an influence in world councils more potent than the sum of their parts. Industrial India, with a swiftly rising output (mostly steel and textiles), would expand most rapidly under the careful nurturing of imperial preferences. If the princes* came in (as they almost certainly would in time), the Dominion of India would become a mighty anchor in the storms that might ravage postwar Asia...
...Toward Dominion Status. The British Government considered its new plan only a "step forward during the interim period [before the granting of Dominion status...
...toughest problems ahead was Dominion-Provincial relations: how should control of such matters as taxation, national health legislation, natural resources be divided between Ottawa and the Provinces? Before the issues could be settled, it might be necessary to rewrite Canada's Constitution. Another problem was housing. The present acute shortage, aggravated by the return of servicemen, was not just a by-product of war; it was the result of almost 15 years during which there had been almost no new building. The war against Japan was still to be won. Reconstruction and reconversion were just beginning...