DEBATE ON INDIA
FUTURE CONSTITUTION
BRITISH WHITE PAPER
GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME
MINISTER EXPLAINS
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received March 28, 11.30 a.m.)"" RUGBY, March 27.
* The Secretary for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, opened a three days* debate in the House of Commons on the Government's proposals regarding the future Constitution of India. He emphasised that Parliament must remember the history of the last century and that year after year India had been led to believe in the continuous bestowal of due instalments of constitutional progress. The outstanding conclusion of the Simon Report was the acceptance of the fact that great changes were now inevitable. The Government proposed to concentrate upon essentials and define responsibility. They agreed that it was quite essential that executive Government both in the centres and the provinces should be strong and the White Paper contained a comprehensive scheme to that effect. They had tried to give the fullest) possible scope to Indian aspirations. The safeguards introduced were believed necessary in th« interests of stable government.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19330328.2.94
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
Word Count
167DEBATE ON INDIA Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in