DISSENTIENT VOICE
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL
PROPHESYING TROUBLE
(Received 27th January, 2 p.m.) LONDON,- 26th January. Mr. Winston Churchill, not speaking on behalf of either the Opposition or Mr. Baldwin, said that he considered the handling of India during the past eighteen months had been most unfortunate. Tho London Conference had been mutilated by the exclusion of the Simon Commission. Indian Congressmen had no power to conclude or enforce a7i agreement, but had formed themselves into a wholly unauthorised Constituent Assembly, to frame a Dominion Status constitution, entailing the right of secession from the Empire. Only a few months ago every party in the House would have condemned such proceedings. There has been a rapid landslide in British disloyalty accompanied by increasing unrest, disorder, disloyalty, and assassination »in India. The Viceroy had to couple his own kindly, generous sentiments with repressive measures and restrictions on liberty, resulting in the gaoling of sixty thousand political prisoners.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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