IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1931, Page 5

IN INDIA

GANDHI WANTED. AT LONDON CONFERENCE (United Press Association.— P j Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON. March 14. Parliamentary lobbyists learn that an attempt will he made t>> induce l)r Gandhi to come to London in .May u> participate iu the Fedi nil Structure Column tee. which will thrash out vital problems prior to a full Round-Table e oid'ereiiee in 11 I<> autumn.

Tlie Indian debate was wound up by the Prime Minister, .Mr MaeDonakl, who elaimed that the great majority of all parties wire united in standing by th ( > spirit and methods of the Round Table Conference. He hoped that in future the co-operat.ion of the parties would he as creative and effective as 'during tlie conference, when they succeeded in planning the general aspect of the picture of Indian Constitution and in laying down as a confiition of the Federal structure responsibility at the centra, safeguards of various kinds the Princes coming in and provimyi's safeguarding all the communities in India. Now tlie work was going on in India and here, and soon they were going to get the Federal Structure Committee at work again in London. The committee’s report indicated some of the big points to he discussed.

Speaking of the return of the Indian delegates to London, tins Prime Minister said: “Wo hope that when they come—l cannot say flint we have been officially fold —that. Gandhi him* self will he here and other representatives of the Congress, and that we shall have our old friends, the men to whom we owed so much at the RoundTable Conference, the Princes, the II in. lus and the .Moslems the representatives of Labour and the representatives, net on'y of the Government, hut also of Parliamnel,

The Secretary for India. Mr Wedgwood Bonn, when asked for a statement in the Mouse of Commons on the financial implications of the report ol tln> Round Table Conference, referred to Paragraphs IS and lid of the report of tlie Federal Structure Sub-Commit-tee of the Conference. He said: “The importance, both now and under the new constitution, of tlie financial stability of India and of her credit position, cannot possibly he exaggerated. It is in India’s own interest that she should retain the position of confidence which she enjoys. It is the considered view of the Government, which, indeed. is well known. I lie saleguards referred to by tlie Federal Structure Committee, including the powers ol Governor-General in relation to currency and legislation, are essential and cannot lie abated if the new Constitution is to he established with suecess.”