INDIA’S FUTURE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 388, 20 March 1937, Page 6

INDIA’S FUTURE.

I Experiment in Constitutional Change. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, March 18. I .Txird Zetland, Secretary of State for Indic, in i article contributed to the j Christian Science Monitor, refers to j. firsi great instalment of the ■ change in the Constitution of India which will come into effect in a forti night’s ..mo. -I the British Empire there *has I been no example of more rapid politiI cal progress.” Lord Zetland writes, ■and I doubt whether any country I e- n .' ,iow a record of vaster changes I except by way of revolution. It is a I greater advance than the most ardent ' Indian reformer of the last generation would have looked upon as a practical : possibility.

“Admittedly, it is an experiment, but it is an experiment which has been prep, -ed with the utmost care and in c. spirit et most sober realism. Its success, for which there is every reason to be hope' 11, will come at a time when the ca >se of democracy is ,n sore nee i of encouragement, and it will mark a notable breach in the : barrier which hitherto has been supposed to exist between the ways and *ic. is ol tie Eastern and Western hemispheres. The country which, | with the single exception of China, I contains the largest aggregation of : human being? ; r the world, is now in I the jrocess of attaining unity such as 11. has never yet possessed in the j whole of its history.”