FUTURE OF INDIA
Important Declaration SETTL EM ENT UItG ED UNDER A FEDERATION OBSTACLES TO BE REMOVED Uw. and rs. 7. Cable Rugby. June 27. An important declaration upon the Indian cunslitutional procedure was innili- in vile House of Commons by Sir Samuel 1!oilre. Secretary for India. He nimmini't'd that' (la 1 Government would endeavour to give effect to tlndr Indian polity by means of a single Rill wliieb would provide alike for tin- autonomous const Motion of the provinces and for a Federation of tlie I’ronviuees aut States. They intended that the measure stool contain provisions enabling the provincial constitutions to be introduced without, necessarily awaiting the completion of the steps required for tin actual inauguration of the Federation. Since it was an essentiail feature of (lie Government's policy that the Federation which the Riil would construct should he a Federation of mill ,India, it followed that flu' units concerned must he prepared to aytpally federate. and the proposals lo he laid before Parliament must be,-complete in all essentials. i The Government was convinced that matters had.now reached the stage at which a settlement was urgent. The infpbrfnnl questions remaining would only bq delayed by tlio formal sessions of the large bodies.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3758, 29 June 1932, Page 6
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