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Transition in India

The Pacific Story · December 22, 1946 · 30 min · 3,994 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific. The drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This is a documentary account of the situation in the Pacific. Of the men and events which are today influencing world affairs for generations to come. Transfission in India. 46th Prime Minister Atley was on his speech in the parliamentary debate in the House of Commons.

I am quite certain that the tide of nationalism is running very far seen India and indeed all over Asia. In the Netherlands, India, the French, Indo-China, as well as in India, the old colonial system was crumbling.

I hope that India may elect to remain within the British Commonwealth. If, on the other hand, the elect's independent, in our view, she has the right to do so. It will be for us to help make the transition as bold as possible.

Transitions. Britain was in the process of giving India self-government, but giving India back to the Indians contemplated enormous difficulties in whose hands would it be placed? The Indians are divided, 250 million Hindus on one side, 92 million Muslims on another.

Not to mention the other minorities. For a good many years, two conflicts have been going on simultaneously in India. This is an observer. The first conflict has been between the Indian Nationalists on one side and the British government on the other.

This conflict has revolved around the question of when India wants to be free. This conflict has been going on for many years. The second conflict has been between the Hindus and the Muslims. On the question of how the power to be transferred to the Indians is to be shared between them. There are some very strong ideas about this.

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