BOUND TO FAIL
ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE. GANDHI’S THREAT OF BOYCOTT. ‘'United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. The Round Table Conference is bound to fail, arid All' Ramsay MacDonald’s only alternatives are to grant Congres;. a full programme or to return to military autocracy, Gandhi told the “Star.” He 'added that, if the demands were not granted, civil disobedience would break out again, and British goods would he completely boycotted. Manufactures nop made in India would be imported from America, even if they were inferior to the English. Beet sugar would be obtained from Germany, rather than from Mauritius. He was sure they could keep the new civil disobedience movement non-violent. The British knew that the Conference would fail when it was called, because it was packed with delegates who were bound to quarrel.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1931, Page 6
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141BOUND TO FAIL Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1931, Page 6
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