J*******3 发帖数: 1651 | 1 "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion"
-Entry dated to September 1942 on a conversation held with Churchill in Leo
Amery : Diaries.
“我讨厌印度人。他们是残忍的民族,有着野蛮的宗教。饥荒是他们自己的错,他们繁
殖起来象兔子。”
-- 温斯顿·丘吉尔
“Power will go to the hands of ras-cals, rogues, free-boot-ers; all Indian
lead-ers will be of low cal-i-ber and men of straw. They will have sweet
tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst them-selves for power and
India will be lost in polit-i-cal squabbles. A day would come when even air
and water would be taxed in India."
"Let the House remember this. The Indian political parties and political
classes do not represent the Indian masses. It is a delusion to believe that
they do. I wish they did. They are not as representative of them as the
movements in Britain represent the surges and impulses of the British nation
. This has been proved in the war ... ... The Congress Party declared non-co
-operation with Great Britain and the Allies. ... ... the Muslim League,
sought to make a bargain about it, but no bargain was made. ... ...
Nevertheless, the only great volunteer army in the world that fought on
either side in that struggle was formed in India. More than three and a half
million men came forward to support the King-Emperor and the cause of
Britain; they came forward not by conscription or compulsion, but out of
their loyalty to Britain and to all that Britain stood for in their lives.
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes
we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will
remain.
This Government, by their latest action, this 14 months limitation—which is
what I am coming to— (will) cripple the new Viceroy and destroy the
prospect of even going through the business on the agenda which has to be
settled. This can only be explained as the complete adoption of one of Mr.
Gandhi's most scatterbrained observations, which I will read to the House.
It was made on 24th May, 1942, after the Mission. He said: Leave India in
God's hands, in modem parlance, to anarchy; and that anarchy may lead to
internecine warfare for a time, or to unrestricted dacoities. From these a
true India will arise in place of the false one we see. There, as far as I
can see, is a statement indistinguishable from the policy His Majesty's
Government are determined to pursue." |
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