ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 15

ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.

OF INDIA.

jgtECATES OF MANY FACTIONS. OF A CONSTITUTION. OTWCIiI. WIRELESS.) | RUGBY, November 20. I Bound Table Conference it# general discussion this •JssWb of Bhopal said they met * of goodwill, which Linen fostered throughout his ViceZgM, by Lord Irwin, one of the Viceroys and the best friend y, erei had. proposed federation should conitnelf solely in matters of common J* to be defined by mutual con-

gjj. ■ fie federation also must be equal on and there could bo no quesof the status of the States being j, uy way wbordinate to that of the On those conditions he a&tlf »B reea with tho P riac! P lc of a 2eemph«"ed that among the Princes „nft aoßted, as between Moslems flj-ffisdM, and in the Indian States,, mnr-ml tension was practically nonfittest' XrXcayan Malhar, speaking on bejilt ct the workers of India, said he udHrß. Shiva Kao had come to the in' the hope that with the j,jj jad sympathy of the other dcleatn the constitution of a self-govern-Slidia would be framed. They (Mi lilte the constitution to contain ,iftiiration of the fundamental rights workers; secondly, such constiatin'to be founded upon universal ifrigr, and, thirdly, that labour legjiiticß always remained a subject for lit Federal Government. ■Woman Delegate Speaks. Jlii Shah Nawaz, who is a daughter :: Sir Muhammad Shafi, and one of the MirSmeirir the Conference, pointed gt that her. presence as a Moslem uaia, belonging to a family .which iSbji observed strict purdah, was an Jafiition that the so-called " unlinging East" was unchanging no toga. She hoped the Conference mid giro Indian women an adequate tea of the administration of a nail, with equal status within the Bri•jjl Omnmon wealth. The women must tij/kt in the nation's awakening, but ■at also, realise the tremendous, rcnaiibility of guiding the younger genation along the straight road, -tin* • Sir Mahommed Ismail, Prime Sorter of Mysore, said the success d,the Conference would be ..tested fply by how far they had been able. }>ria; England and India closer toper in the- bonds of true" friendship at unity. Be believed the very di-the-iateiestß in India would b jsutato. the. requisite standard Itiaocrafie' institutions that' it should be established, •fli jtwStntion which provides full IftCfPf ill. the Provinces, responsibility i</i#jepitre (subject to such transit*i»l»<tjpiards as may be necessary niHnel&ble) and a "close association Wwi British-India and the States in WtW of common. concern this,, let be. the result °f our WSanticiaJ here." ©C P. Bamaswami Aiyar (Indian ifenflParfy) said'the'only way of prowatfeaeej;" contentment, and com3fMbip .between India and England Wit hammer out a . system of govenatt which would give the most Mlnr spirit* in India to feel that h 4 -brought into being a consti"tffl worti working in. tet Beading on Dominion Status. jKi.£eading (a former Viceroy of fPJ laid the Conference was membecame, it differed from previftfnetiee by giving India' a chance H? eage .before, and not after, W»»tiament had.reached its cbnclusWm?Dg to the demand for an ad- I 2? L® constitutional Government *t#iaing. said Dominion status was and had never, been deno one doubted that what it was a status equal to the other Dominions, and very Ti ®nst be considered and before the' ultimate goal they for could be obtained. . for those with whom he however, he would say jj, rally accepted the statement W aatnral issue of the 1917 de-

Dominion status, and that B " ths words used was ionld be no difference of 'ejirding the goal and they possible to reach JhLji* b® forgiven if he used which, however, was feais*. . ® heard in- different jW,v7 raany of those present, waa , idle to sa y at er e could be anything jdata's in India with iflls' because there were l ol^'fiDc h as the army and ** that came in which must ' * n< * cet *, n ° one could «t Tei fcv j® rec ognised this than Bapru. Ver ' !t was Parliament tW.i® P ersu adcd. One of the f 6 * a . ut ., tho reliable liter- ♦ them was that in ' India's report the SriSfc .niembera of the Council, fefr Indian, gave views * little from the constat* ?^, in the main, by the

I Federation. S?" <^ nni ' 8s ' 0n * ai( * great goal. The Gov"Bßtrdefl it sa me view, ttsiV as more distant. > b eeari te gr th t c^ an Se had taken had exHCn , They did not rJ , Ut . he ,10 ped they »«tUe. Tv slons when they Jr T great question. Sahib of NawVibhaji) ome'••Bbaf essit y ' or satisof -India as a ft, co "tniuo as a conBritish Gomruonhad done - well 'iaaiAr "£ ? er * es °urces, in inst itutions, fitter, repreof. the different