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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1932, Page 4

The British, Parliamentary delegation at the impending India. Round Table Conference is stated to be the strongest representative group which ha.s yet participated in discussions on InTTan affairs. The fact is an earnest of the British Government’s determination to reach finality on a question that has remained indeterminate too lon fe . Since its assumption of office the National Government has concentrated its attention and efforts upon the standing questions affecting the welfare of the Empire. Thus far its record has been impressive. First it balanced the Budget, and then turned its attention to the balance oif trade. It stopped the clumping of cheap foreign goods that was crippling British industries. Next it bent its whole effort, through a strong delegation, to make the Imperial Economic Conference at O.ttawla a practical success. Even while; the Conference wa,s in preparation and during its progress flic great series of conversion loans were launched and carried through with resounding success. It has been ;a noteworthy year of British achievement. Now comes India, a most difficult and delicate problem, the thorniest question in Imperial politics. We have had the Simon Commission, two Round' Table Conferences ;> and an Indian' Franchise Committee. Yet out of all these efforts the one article of agreement upon which the nearest approach to unanimity has been made in that India is to progress toward Dominion status through a Federal Constitution based on a V'TKliiso suitable to the peculiar complexity of her communal life. It is on the form of franchise that diisenssiotis hitherto have h'-eken down. ’Die onus is now upon the Imperial Government to formulate lwsi.® ri franchise that must he accepted by the Indian peoples whether they like it or not, since; they thcnrelves have failed to come to agreement.