GOVERNING OF INDIA
Provisions of New Bill (British Official Wireless.> Rugby, January 29. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India. Mr. R. A. Butler, in a speech at Cambridge on the Government of India Bill, emphasised the importance of the instruments of instructions to be issued to 1 the Governor-General and Governors under the new Constitution. While unalterable without the approval of Parliament they would add flexibility to the written Constitution. 'They would follow the lines indicated in Iho Joint Select Committee's report. In general, lie said, the Bill was based on a Parliamentary system of Government, but provided in emergencies for the strong executive so familiar to the East. The new Constitution provided for a partnership between Britain and India within the Empire, and he was confident also that the partnership in trade, begun by the Ottawa Agreement and the trade agreement published a few weeks ago would bo continued.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 9
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149GOVERNING OF INDIA Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 9
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