PRINCES’ RIGHTS
TROUBLE IN INDIA SESSION POSTPONED STAFF RESIGNATIONS (10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 5. A session of the Indian Chamber of Princes, which was to have met on Tuesday and at which tire Viceroy. Lord Wavell, was to have presided, was postponed owing to the resignation of all the Chamber’s office holders, including the chancellor, the Nawab of Bhopal, says the British United Press’ New Delhi correspondent. The resignations are reported to have followed Lord Wavell’s reply to a memorandum in which the princes, inter alia, demanded a guarantee that their relationship with the British Crown should not be affected on the transfer of power and- responsibility to a popular Government in India. It is understood that this guarantee was refused.
The princes also wanted their treaty rights to be declared sacrosanct for all time.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 4
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