BOMBAY: `We have done our best and any further initiative now must come either from the British Government or from the Congress, declared Mr. M.A. Jinnah ... addressing a Press Conference here this morning [July 31].

Mr. Jinnah was reviewing the decisions of the Council of the Muslim League. He made it clear ... that the decision of the Muslim League to resort to direct action is not a declaration of war against anybody. This resolution is nothing but a statement concerning the steps we propose to take for our own self-preservation and selfdefence. Mr. Jinnah declined to indicate what the Muslim League would do in hypothetical circumstances, remarking that the situation would be met as it arose. He also declined to indicate the exact nature of the direct action which the League proposed to take nor the steps the League Council of Action would take in that direction... .

While both the British Government and the Congress were armed in their own way, one with fire weapons and the other with threat of mass struggle, the Muslim League felt it was high time it also ... got ready for a struggle to enforce its demand for Pakistan. Dawn Delhi