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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 4

“The present form of government in India has outlived its usefulness. Few seem to have grasped the significance of the opening session'of the Round-Table Conference, from which tho c e of extreme views were excluded by their own action; in that representative and cautions i assembly not oue voice was raised in 'defence of the present system. ’So wrote Mr' Stanley Reed, commenting in the “London Times” recently on the White Paper on India. He continued; Something has to take

its place; it is the feeblest beating of tho air to propose changes which should not carry the goodwill essential to success. The greatest work of tho conference is the insistence on the federal principle, the only form of government suited to the size and diversity of India. : . The idea of a Congress

domination is as fantastic as the bugbear if a vakil rrj of the ‘Die-Hards’ of a generation ago. . . So it seems to me, and to the great majority of Englishmen who know the India of today, that the legislative measure now before Parliament is the true expression of Conservatism—the recognition of the causes which had led. to the demand of India to he ultimate master of her own destiny, anj wise steps to meet it. Those who oppose it either never were Conservatives or never understood the principles of Conservatism. Whither would they lead us? Here the historian of Conservatism may be quoted :—lf the spirit that any change at any time for any purpose is to be deprecated ‘should at any time gain possession of thea Conservative Party, the day of triumphant revolution will have dawned.’ None who knows modern India can doubt the ■applicability of that conclusion to the situation which exists to-day.”