द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

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between us are closed or whether you expect me still to
see and receive guidance from you as to the course I am to
pursue in advising the Congress.'
The Viceroy sent a long reply on December 31st and stated
at the end: 'His Excellency feels bound to emphasis that he
will not be prepared to discuss with you any measures which
the Government of India, with the fullest approval of His
Majesty's Government, found it necessary to adopt in Bengal,
the United Provinces and the North-West Frontier Province.'
Soon after receipt of this telegram the Working Committee
met on January 1st, 1932, and adopted the following resolution:
' . . . The Committee regards the Premier's declaration
as wholly unsatisfactory and inadequate, and in terms
of the Congress demands, opines that nothing short of
complete independence, carrying full control of defence,
external affairs and finance, with such safeguards as may be
demonstrably necessary in the interest of the nation, can
be regarded by the Congress as satisfactory. The Committee
notes that the British Government was not prepared to
regard the Congress at the Round Table Conference as
entitled to speak on behalf of the nation as a whole. At
the same time the Committee recognises, with sorrow that
communal harmony could not be attained at the said
Conference. The Committee invites the nation, therefore,
to make ceaseless efforts to demonstrate the capacity of the
Congress to represent the nation as a whole and promote an
atmosphere that would make the Constitution, framed
purely on a national basis, acceptable to the various com-
munities composing the nation. Meanwhile, the Com-
mittee is prepared to render co-operation to Government,
provided the Viceroy reconsiders his Thursday's telegram
to Mahatma Gandhi, adequate relief is granted in respect
of the Ordinances and its recent acts, a free scope is left
to the Congress in any future negotiations and consultations
to prosecute the Congress's claim for complete independence
and administration of the country is carried on with
popular representatives pending the attainment of such
independence.
'In the absence of a satisfactory response from Govern-
ment in terms of the foregoing paragraph, the Working