VIGOROUS ATTACK ON INDIA BILL
BROADCAST BV Mi; HINSTON (111 KCIIII.L ornci.u, wielm.k-; ■.) RUGBY. January 3D. Mr Winston Churchill (Conservative)l made a vigorous attack on the Government's Bill for reform of the India Constitution last, night when he spoke in the series of broadcasts arranged to enable all shades o! opinion to find expression i>n this subject. After describing the h(_ueiiis which British rule had given India he said the "chief shame" of this. India Home Rule Bill was thai Great Britain finally withdrew her guardianship from the leeniing myriads of Indian toilers, not, merely as an experiment, but as a solemn abdication and repudiation of her duty, thereby delivering them over to inefficiency, nepotism, and corruption.
While Japan a( the oilier end of the world was building up an empire, said Mr Churchill. Great Britain seemed ready to let hers drift awav on the ebb tide.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21387, 1 February 1935, Page 11
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