FUTURE OF INDIA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 373, 7 November 1932, Page 5

FUTURE OF INDIA

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BRITISH DELEGATION : ; ' . f - , ' " i ■; " •*

STRONG REFRE SENT ATION r 5 - At ROtiNb-TABLE CONFERENCE IMPORT ANCE OF MEETING

Rec. Nov. -5, 5.5 p.m. ' Rughy, November 4. The British Parliamentary delegation" at the forthcoming Indian RoiindTahle 'Conference 'ih London will cohsist of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (Presi- ! dent of the Conference), Lord San- [ key (d'eputy-President), Sir Samuel | Hoare, Lord .Hailsham, Sir John Si- 1 mon, Lord Irwin (ex-Viceroy of India and now Minister of Education), Mr. J. C. C. Davfdson (Chairman of the Indian States Committee, app'ointe'd by'the last conference), and Mr. R. A. Butler ( U nder-Secf etar y for India) Ther non- Government 'delegates' are Lord Peel, * Earl Winterton, , the Marquis of Reading (a foriner Viceroy) and the Marquis of. Lothian. ' - The Labour Parliamentary Party was invited to nom'inate. representa-

tives, but prefers to take no part in the discussions a"t this stage. The British delegation is probably tbe strongest ever associated with Indian affair s. Sir John Simon's inclusion is of particular intere'st, as he is one of the Ministers with the greatest knowledge of India. The task of the conference is to harness the aspirations and ideals of its predec'essors to the realities of Indian political conditions and British Parliamentary responsibilities. The strength of the delegation indicates the importanoe the Government attaches 'to its deliberations. Xhe Government helieves that with the goddwill, patience, and the desire and capacity to understand each oth'er's points of view shbwn at a round-table conference they should be able to make progress in securing a measure of agreem'ent as a preliminary to the concluding stage of the Par- ' liamentary dis'cussion ahd legislation.