Leveled Readings / British Cabinet Mission: Statement on Policy in India (1946)
British Cabinet Mission: Statement on Policy in India (1946)
British Cabinet Mission and the Viceroy, Statement on India (May 16, 1946), quoting Prime Minister Clement Attlee
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“The British Commonwealth and Empire is not bound together by chains of external compulsion. It is a free association of free peoples.”
Adapted · about grade 4
The British say their empire is not held together by force. It is a free group of free peoples.
Adapted · about grade 7
The British Commonwealth is not held together by force from outside; it is a free association of free peoples.
Adapted · about grade 10
The British Commonwealth and Empire is not bound together by external compulsion; it is a free association of free peoples.
Used in: How did former colonies make the case for independence?