INDIAN POLICY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 90, 7 December 1931, Page 6

INDIAN POLICY

(British Official Wireless)

GOVERNMENT PLAN ENDORSED BY HOUSE OF COMMONS SMALL NUMBER NOT SATISFIED

RUGBY, Friday. The House of Commons endorsed the Government's Indian policy by 369 votes to 43. In the later stages of the debate it. became clear that the statements made on behalf of the Government, including that of Sir John Simoh, satisfied all but a small minority. Mr. J. S. Wardlaw-Milne, chairman of the Conservative Indian Committee,, said the House need have no hesitation in accepting the Government's 'proposals. A Conservative, Mr. Molson, oppos-

ed Mr. Winston Churchill's amend-. ment as being calculated to prejudice good relations in India. He hoped Mr Gandhi and the Congress would see that the spirit of the Irwin-Gandhi agreement, which was now being broken by the boycott of ..British , mills in India, was carried out. Sir. Austen Chamberlain said Mr Churchill was asking for something no- honourable body could approve. ( Mr. G. Lansbury, Leader of the Opposition, said they were most anxious to see the negotiations, continued. .. ... •

. The."News Chronicle" says the division. showed in the plaipest possible mannei; that the Government has been puthorised to pqrsue the policy defmed by the' Prime Minister and Sir Samuel Hoare. Any doubts in lndia, or elsewhere as tQ; whether the . country was behind the Government policy had been settled.