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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 4

AhhV’trs'i n a recent speech to the charge that the course of policy which will .give -self-government to India is

- weak [■ .lie;-*, dir Hmmicl Hcare. Secretary for India, said:—“l am inclined to think that t 1 e w ak is to tit still and do nothing. T could remain in Whitehall; T could go on steadily muint.' : ’ung I"’’ :>"'i evdo”.the Vicerin- in India could go on crushing civil d :, 'ohedienee uid an v attempt to chrdlenm 11 i, L -. c&labli.sljod Govern mevd. Wind would to the opinion of the world at when in 10 years’

I time there had be-pn recrimination, I there had been reversals t.f policy, 1 and when, as a result of the fact that v.e had failed to* plan for the future when we had the opportunity, the nlf.iirs of India went the way of the affairs ol Ireland before the war and the whole machine of yovonunont crashed along the road where it had drifted ? Am wise course and the straight course- is not to sit with fold'd! hands and to leave the difficulties to he solved or unsolved by future generations, hut to take the oppoitunitv that, we now have, the opportunity that may never recur with the great .sober, cautious majority in the House of Commons, with a large body of men in India who are friendly di--posod to us, to take that opportunity and plan now for the future. In my small way I am trying to act on common seme, business linos in politic-:. I think it k po! sil.de to make the he'-'t r, f tho opportunity that may not recur to nrlnpt om* plnnt in India to mode"7l conditions, to readjust the articles o p association between Great Britain aml lndi'\. to embark upon new dedove! ornuonts, hut, none the le-s. to work always and constantly within the old framework—the framework of the British Empire.”