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India. Sir Chunilal B. Mehta hoped that U.S. businessmen would not support a U.S. international policy that subsidizes exports of U.S. surplus cotton while the U.S. exhorts other nations to abolish similar artificial stimulants to their foreign trade (see Government...
Industry's View. The industrial, if not the human, resources of India have been pretty well behind the war, and they have contributed substantially to Allied strength in the Far East. Nevertheless, a spokesman for Indian industry sharply criticized the British last week. Said G. L. Mehta, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry: "In India, the program of defense, civil or military, is not broadly based on popular will. The demand for application to India of principles for whose vindication the United Nations claim to be waging this war . . . has remained unheeded...
...Mehta's statement was not entirely free of self-interest. Wrote New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews from Calcutta recently: "Big Indian firms like the Birla Brothers of Bombay finance the All-India Congress. . . . Indian rivals [of British businessmen] want to get their businesses away from them, and in that struggle much is involved, political as well as financial...