sanction will be derived not merely from the willing-
ness of the two governments to maintain it but from
the means of enforcing its will, which it will inherit
from the National Government.
Out of the proposal for two Centres in the
country, the proposals of Mr. Jinnah and of the Draft
Declaration of March 30, 1942, agree in that they are
to function with the support of British arms. The
Draft Declaration calls the two divisions of India two
Dominions and leaves the option of seceding with each
province. Mr. Jinnah's scheme calls them sovereign
States but all the same wants the British arms to
maintain the two States till they learn to behave. Both
the schemes therefore imply the perpetuation of Bri-
tish hegemony for maintaining the partition as also
peace between the two States. Under both these,
therefore, the common framework of power keeping
the two Indias together and the maintenance of the
internal frontiers as also the international frontiers
will rest with Britain.
Rajaji's formula, in so far as it envisages two-
sovereign States working together by alliances and
treaties, is unreal. No states have worked together
or imposed upon themselves the rule of law without
being disciplined in a framework of law which has
the sanction of force behind it.
(4)
The choice, therefore, lies between—
(A) A single Centre in which the British are
associated with India's representatives for some time
and which evolves conventions by which the British
element loses the power in proportion to the increase
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