THE INDIAN PROBLEM

Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 9

THE INDIAN PROBLEM

PREPARING TO RESUME CONFERENCE GREAT AND COMPLICATED TASK (British Official Wi rcloss.l Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 5. (Received August 6, at 11 a.m.) The Indian Round Tabic Confer dice’s Federal Structure Committee will resume its sittings at St. James’s Palace soon after September 5, which was the date fixed for the assembling of the delegates in London. Members of the Minorities Subcommittee have been asked to be in London by September 26, with a view to resuming business within ten days thereafter. The date of the mooting of 4 the full conference has not yet been iixed, but the delegates who are not members of the Federal Structure and Minorities Committees have been asked to reach London by tho end of October. A complete list of the delegates invited to the conference has been issued. It comprises nineteen members In tho Indian States delegation, seventy in tho British India delegation, and nineteen in the British delegation. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a message to the diocese, makes intercession foy a spirit of mutual understanding among the delegates at tho conference. He adds that the work before tho conference represents tho greatest and most difficult task ever pub before the Empire in the long course of its history. It demands tho exorcise of patient and constructive statesmanship, and his Lordship adds; “Nothing but a spirit of mutual sympathy, understanding, and goodwill among the delegates can find a way through tho difficulties.”