I fully know that they differ but only on unimportant details. But I say that being in the Commonwealth we shall have to go with them on major issues. We cannot oppose them unless we want to break with them. Therefore by being in the Commonwealth, we will have to follow them and to that extent our independence will be circumscribed. Already Russia feels that we have joined the Anglo–American power bloc. Observer Mr. Marin in, writing in Monday’s Pravda of Moscow, on the 30 April declared
“that however Constitutional Forms are altered, the relations between Britain and India remained unchanged except for the introduction of a new military political basis. India’s reform as a republic was being used to strike a new bargain between the British and Indian leaders involving the transformation of this ‘Republic’ into an ‘Anglo-American lever in Southeast Asia’. British observers regarded India as the ‘Key to Asia which is the Eastern Front in the present cold war’ and naturally the United States and Britain wished to own this key. For this purpose they were employing economic pressure through loans and frank intimidation.”
“The Basic purpose of the London meeting is the Labour Government’s desire to bind the Dominions with a chain of new far-reaching military obligations including them in the system of aggressive policy of the Anglo-American bloc thus striving to weaken the action of centrifugal forces now destroying the British Empire.”