FUTURE OF INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1931, Page 5

FUTURE OF INDIA

ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE. DATE OF RESUMPTION. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 30. An India Offico communique says : “His Majesty’s Government and the Government of India have been discussing the date for the resumption of the Indian Round-Table Conference. The choice lay between summoning the Federal Structure Committee to this country a t the end of June, which would have involved a meeting in August, or postponing the resumption until September, in the latter ease the interval to be employed in pressii.ig on with certain necessary work both in London and India.

His Majesty’s Government was prepared to adopt the first course, if all sections (found it to be practicable. Enquiries, however, have shown that this alternative was seriously inconvenient to several members of the committals both at Home and in India. “A later date is therefore unavoidable, but a constitutional advance is a matter of so milch moment to India that ■ the resumption of the Round-liable Conference caßnot be postponed beyond the beginning of September. His Majesty’s Government has therefore decided to invite the Federal Structure Committee to reassemble in London mot later than September sth for tiie resumption of its Work at the earliest practicable date thereafter. If a commuiiftl settlement IiUS beeh reached in India by that time the Work of the Federal Structure Oomnißte© will be greatly fnoifitilted. If not, it will b‘* a matter for consideration whether the Minorities Committee should resume its work about the same time. The question of adding representatives { o the Federal Structure Committee is under active consideration.”