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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 11

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OF INDIA. pledges. ,OCH THE AGA KHAN '

omciu. mm""-? , no RUGBY, November , „ tev General discussion at Bound-table Conference was The Prime Mister (Mr c poiiald), president of the J|3lS*v

, M ech Mr Mac Donald said U* that the Conference was ® li. in "self was a recognition < h ich could never be departed " Regarding the pledges made o l m that had been said officially, would have proof Ljit meant to carry out those pledges. n . jnagnificent speeches by the I tad by the representatives of every interested community j been extraordinarily practical. * given s most substantial conation in the opening speeches to a united federated India.

flexible Federation, want for India 21 xedcrai-iou riid il flexible, which meets India's iatoricsl inheritance, and ensures the •■Wtof the individual," he said. The S, pow was to supply practical for embodying in an Act of ftrliamtnt, to questions regarding the it tare of the component units to be 'tted ieto the scheme of federation, the «®e of the central co-ordinating oietve, the relations of this strucan to the Provinces and States, the snriiiOM necessary to secure the willit# M-cperation of the minorities, and U interests of subjects wheretie central structure would deal, ai general. administrative functions n4 M»pon»ibilitie». Tie eoostitntion must meet two fundasttta! requirements: It must work, and it nut evolve. That was the history ■> all the constitutions of the Domin--181. On leaving conference to the comtdttee ke said they would proceed with :1» best mil not only of the Governsat, but of the British Parliament. Axl Important speech.

Before the Prime Minister rose the Khan, chairman of the .British Indian delegation, made a short but isport&nt speech. They had heard, he said, practically crery school of Indian thought, and if ill difference were eliminated there was us one point complete unanimity: they jI! asked for a full measure of selfjorenunent. "We ask you to pronyse us the fnmework. If the picture we also jaint in it is unsatisfactory to any of (to important minorities, or to the jiaeee, or to a small section of the writiet, are will try again, and we tß"eoctinne trying till we produce | wiling that will be generally satisisotj, I for one am particularly ntatluit it shall be in a form which filawe that not only every Indian saafy,. bnt also the British comami!element in India, shall be satisjei Ait their interests are safe.''

&m ww no reason why, if they mH prodnee a federal scheme that nsliplme the Princes, the Hindus, tit Jfalema, and tbe smaller minority ltd latitfy legitimate commercial strati, they should not r.t this moait itirt on the basis of full selfjrtßsatnt and responsibility.

m VICEROY OF INDIA. U)RD CORELL MENTIONED. | leaked November 23rd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. "Daily Express" understands that to ttw Viceroy of India will be Lord SatS. [tosild Gorell Barnes, author, bar- *"*•» wldisr, and. 3rd Baron Gorell, "Wi«a in April, 1884, a son of the WtiflWß jndge, and was educated ®*«*&Mter, Harrow, and Balliol ColJBi Oxford. After being called to tha y®l9oß, be joined the staff of "The Md was an active journalist SJ j #es * five years. At the beginthe World War, he went into ~Z* aa T and by 1916 was captain and of a Bifle Brigade battalion. 1818 he was a major on the genand later received a colon%lt Wa» while engaged in active J™*® the Front that he succeeded Parage, his brother, the second J l ?®} killed in action in 1917. 1918, he had the experience of ® report of his own death from Hfc had, In fact, been woundtiLtw *^. e * n hospital filled up hia tb a detective novel. On te was made Deputy-Di-Duties at the War Office, tin J? task of reorganising ■ystem of the army—t» it!. ?. was particularly congenHg J™ capacity for work, how'*fhiT?i?™*' an< ' tL ' tfle same time E»awwf .' 00 k on many other duties. did was marked by ' ar *d originality, Wmil » B itroa K sense of humour. % 1922 he wan chairman of ■ J?i . Education Committee; *®2l, to October, 1922, ' or Air in tho last ™ m ent; in 1921, chairman Committee of th* rJL , ade; ' n 1923 chairman fte Ia>B»*(.f I 2, a , ro Ph Committee of on Conference, nnd ® y ear < a member of the ? ? 3ttee . of thc Board chairman of the Council. He was and i? Peers to join the Labour Mid *hown himself a very fa 1929 u House of Lords, i P«toUMi,„ B® became a partner in v" 7" of tfolln Murray. He the PreSSup? , Education and the |® (r » Afl'» ji "® os nmund," "Yen- , .i co " ect ' on of poems, r!f H. 0. Wells's views on 7**®® one of the ablest * or the Labour Move-