INDIAN PROBLEMS
PROTEST MOTION DEFEATED
SUPPORT FOR LEAGUE 03?
i NATIONS.
(REUTBR'S TELEGEASI.)
(Received 18th July, 11.30 a.m.)
• •.. ■ DELHI, 17th July. "■ ,The Legislative Assembly debated the unofficial resolution moved Toy ah Indian' member' in 'favour of--the."appointment of a Committee to, consider the question of the continuance of the financial grant to the League o£.. Nations as a protest 1 against-the treatment of Indians in the mandated territories and the Pacific islands., The leaders of the Nationalist' and Labour Parties, who were both former, representatives in the League of Nations,and other members, strongly, opposed the.resolution... They stressed the' usefulness of the League, and : pointed ■ out that recent Labour'legislation in India had-been largely, due to the' efforts^ of the International Labour organisation, which forms part of the machinery of the League. , They considered the. resolution premature and; misconceived, and that the interests of .the coloured 'races were likely to suffer if India withdrew from the League." ' -.■■■ • ■.
The motion was withdrawn,
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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158INDIAN PROBLEMS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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