INDIA’S CONTROL

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1931, Page 6

INDIA’S CONTROL

BRITAIN’S NEW POLICY FORECASTED.

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LONDON, Jan. 4

“ By a. wise and timely confession, British statesmanship might .vet enable the liid'an Kereiftskys to crush the. potential Indian Lonins.” said Mr Isaac Foot, the Liberal M.P., who is a delegate to Hie Round Tania Conference, in a. speech in his constituency. Up added that before tbe present session of Parliament closed there would bo a lieelaration of British policy which would open a new chapter of (Indian history. This would Ik* one of the cardinal events in the history of the Empire. There wa.s no doubt, he said, that llie control of Indian affairs must pass to the Indians, although. the tinii and method of its doing so might he a matter of controversy. The extremists in India could he defeated,not by British machine guns, hut hv responsible Indian politicians.

WARNING TO BRITAIN. OF VAST CONFLICT. LONDON. Jan. 4. Pundit Ivunzru, a former member of the Indian Legislature, addressing the International Congress of the League of Nations’ Societies at Glasgow, said that a failure to meet the Indian demad for self government would lead to a world catastrophe. If. he said, the peasantry of India began a refusal to pay the land tax. that movement would spread like a conflagration throughout India, which no power was oaoajble of extinguishing. Britain might rule India b- sheer force for five or six years, added the speaker, but after that, there would he a permanent conflict between East and West—a conflict of race and of colour.