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Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1932, Page 4

Tin: priiilioii of i'ldin ee’Hinn'", one of grave court ni. fn tin l effort to introduce ;i form of lorn I government mr l,li(> vast i ninlr.v nml peoples, tin* IJriti.sli Govr iiiiiunt lias not liceii aide to sue rood, notw: Llistamliinss from Urn King downward;; u supremo effort has liocii mndo to accomplish the end desired, Speaking recently at Oxford, Lord Irwin who has just retired froir.

the head of affairs, in India, said the broad principle of the British policy should be to keep a prosperous and contented India within the British Empire, “hooking at the facts of India as 1 have soon them, I should say that, the aspirations .of political India were the perfectly natural outcome of human instinct and desire to manage their own affair.-!; that it was inevitable from the whole history of the last 100 year's’ and that the, British, of all people in the world, should understand and sympathise with them.” All government would ultimately rest on consent, and therefore if in the great- problem of India they were to work with the current of human thought instead of against it they must- apply themselves to the fact that law 1 must he the fundamental of all society. “We, should he doing a disservice to India if we allowed the basis of that society to ho undermined and fiubvertod. 'That obviously imposes upon 11s a double policy during the present unhappy state of affairs in India; on the one hand, of maintaining the stability of the State, and, on the other, recognising that force by itself has never solved any political problem. All force, can do is to create a condition of affairs in which reason, argument, persuasion and conciliation have their chance to come and find the .solution we seek.”