DELHI CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 6

DELHI CONFERENCE

MR AMERY ON RESULTS POSSIBILITIES OF EMPIRE CO-OPERATION. BEARING ON THE FUTURE OF INDIA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.37 a.m.) RUGBY, December 1. In a speech the Secretary for India (Mr. L. S. Amery) spoke of the Delhi Conference, which he described as being a significant example of both the character and resources of the British Commonwealth. “The conference’s work had led to a realisation of possibilities of co-opera-tian and distribution which will add, to an extent hitherto undreamt of, to the muntions output of the countries which met at Delhi?’ said Mr. Amery. Recalling Mr. Churchill’s words, Mr. Amery said the conference had indeed called into being a new world of armed strength to redress the balance of the old. Of its effect on the future, Mr. Amery said it was of special significance for India, although her internal constitutional development had not yet attained that full measure of self-go-vernment which was the goal of the British Government, and that attainment dependen more upon agreement between the Indian states as to the right nature of the constitution than upon the British Government. Mr Amery pointed out that the Delhi Conference had been laying for India foundations of increased industrial and defensive power which were essential conditions in the 'world of today for true self-government. Concluding, Mr. Amery said: “In spite of artificial political agitations and party manoeuvres, India is, I believe, in fact steadily advancing towards that full and equal partnership in the British Commonwealth which we are pledged to help her to attain.”