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Australians for Australia. Simply by omitting Australia from his prodigious swing, General Wavell accented that menaced Dominion's status as an important and lonely zone. Even as the unified Command was dissolving, Australians complained that it had never been wholly unified or wholly effective. They took command of Australia for themselves, with their tough, hard-talking, fast-moving Lieut. General Sir Iven Mackay at the top. No sooner had they done so than the Jap appeared on the horizon...
...British Case. Today many British liberals favor immediate Dominion status for India. Some favor immediate independence. But today, also, many liberals make perhaps the strongest possible case for extreme caution in Britain's India policy. The fact that the same case is adopted hypocritically by some archimperialists obviously does not impair its merits as a case. It rests on the undeniable major premise that the wrongs of the imperialist past cannot be undone, that present and future are what matter. The text is taken from the inscription on the $10,000,000 palace in which the Viceroy waited last...
...Congress wants complete independence, rather than Dominion status. It declares that Britain has deliberately set Moslems against Hindus for Britain's political advantage. It wants a national central government, claims that the Moslem League would cooperate, if Britain granted independence...
...Ambedkar, spokesman of the Untouchables, wants Dominion status with representative government, has recently urged Britain to impose such a government by fiat, if the Congress-Moslem parties will not unite...
...chief Indian exponent of compromise with Britain, Liberal Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, has recently been gaining ground fast. Speaking for a group of nonparty leaders, he urges that Britain give a definite assurance of Dominion status after the war, make certain immediate changes...