FEDERATION FOR INDIA
QUESTION ANSWERED IN COMMONS (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, December 6. Answering a question in the House of Commons on the progress made in bringing into force the Federal provisions of the Government of India Act, the Under-Secretary of State for India (Mr R. A. Butler) said the aim of the British Government was and always had been to carry into effect the clear intention of Parliament that federation should follow provincial autonomy as an integral part of a single constitutional scheme, with the least possible delay. He added, after recounting the steps taken by the Viceroy (the Marquess of Linlithgow), that every effort would be made to achieve this
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22270, 8 December 1937, Page 13
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