INDIAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1933, Page 5

INDIAN AFFAIRS

CONSTITUTION PREP A R A T .10 N

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LONDON, March 8

In the House of Commons, Mr Winston Churchill asked the Secretary for India (Sir S. I-loare) whether a Committee of Indians was being invited by the Government to participate in a consultative capacity or otherwise in the work of the Joint Committee of both Mouses on the Indian Constitution shortly to be set up and whether he could assure the House he would in no way prejudice by the form of his invitations the decision of either House of Parliament, upon the method of consultation or the status of such Indian Nominees in relation to the Joint Committee.

Sii- S. Hoare replied: “Ever since the Simon Commission was first appointed, successive Governments have had the intention of proposing that Joint Select Committees be set up to consider proposals for the revision of the Indian Constitution be given the power to confer with Indian representatives. The Government therefore proposed to ask Parliament, to ;_*ve the Committee this power. It, however, will he for :t. Coinmiitee alone to decide- upon the nianm-r in which vf p. i, t j it . given to ttiis arrangement. The second part of the question, then-fore, does not arise."