THE INDIA BILL
APPEAL FOR CO-OPERATION
MEASURE PASSED BY LORDS'. (United Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 24. The Government of India Bill passed its third reading in the House of Lords without division. The Secretary of State for India (the Marquess of Zetland) announced that the King had placed at the disposal of Parliament,, for the purposes of the Bill, his Majesty’s interests in territorial and other revenues, at the disposal of the Crown of India. Baron Snell (Labour) said the bill had serious defects, but he asked the Indian people to accept it and work it to the full. .He hoped the Indian workers would set themselves against non-co-operation and violence of any kind.
Baron Llayd (Right Wing Conservative) said that years of successful British rule in India were at an end. He and other opponents of the hill predicted serious consequences from its passage. Lord Zetland made a serious appeal for co-operation. It was inevitable that the opponents of the bill figured more prominently than its supporters, and Indians might misunderstand that. Be assured them that there was behind the bill a great measure of goodwill on the part of the British people. What was actually contained in the bill was of less importance than the spirit in which it was offered. India had a. great contribution to make to the advancement of mankind, and he desired to see the two peoples co-oper-ating for that end
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 242, 26 July 1935, Page 5
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