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cause their skin contains less pigment than mine. Six Chairmen Appointed. The deputy-president of the Conference and a panel of six chairmen to the Conference was set up, embracing Lord Reading and Lord Peel, the, Maharajah of Bikaner, the Nawab of Bhopal, the Aga Khan, and Mr Srinivasa Sastri. It was agreed that the general discussion now proceeding should extend over the mornings of three days, and that the order of the speakers should be prearranged. After a discussion revealing some division of opinion, the president said the general sense was that the Press should .not be admitted to the general discussion, but would have full and impartial information regarding the proceedings from three officers of the general secretariat, acting under the general control committee, consisting of Mr W Wedgwood Benn (Secretary of State for India), representing the British delegation, Mr L. F. Rushbiook Williams (Foreign Minister of Patiala State), representing the Indian States, and Mr C. Y. Cliintamani, representing the British Indian delegation. Indian Public's Attitude. The weekly report by the Government of India on the internal situation states that it is too early yet to estimate the attitude of Indian public opinion towards the Government of India dispatch on reforms, but whatever that attitude may be there was no doubt that the Eound-table Conference was attracting great interest in India, and directing a good deal of public attrition toward constructive methods of obr.itnin;? a solui ion of constitution::."; |.rob!--.nu>. Such O' ' he n«w» on this page as l« so headed has appeared in 'The Times," and is cabled to Australia and New Zealand by special permission. It should be understood that th® opinions ore not those of "The Times" onless expressly stated to b« »o.

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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 11

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