INDIAN UNREST
VICEROY’S SPEECH
DELHI, October 1.
A banquet was given at Simla by members and the Minister of the Punjab Government to bid farewell to the Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin, whose term expires in March next. The Viceroy, in his speech declared that the refusal of the Indian National Congress to go to Round-table Conference at London betrayed a tragic lack of foresight and a bankruptcy of statesmanship. By a blank refusal to face facts the National Congress had assumed a heavy responsibility, for which history would assuredly not hold them guiltless. The Congress had done great ecoriomic harm to the country, and had, on the civic side, inflicted irreparable harm by inculcating a spirit of defiance.
The Viceroy referred to the suggestion that peace might have been restored if he had given a private assurance on the constitutional issue. He remarked that secret diplomacy of this kind “to buy off the civil disobedience movement” would never appeal to him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1930, Page 9
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