INDIAN COMMISSION.
ON RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT. OPPOSED BY SAKLATVALA. LONDON, November 23. . Lord Wisterton moved the second reading of the Bill for the appointment of a new Commission on Responsible Government in India. Mr MacDonald, supporting, said the Labour Government in 1924 hoped to report on the subject, but unfortunate events in India precluded them. They reserved Labour criticism till the debate on the personnel of the Commission.
Mr Macpherson supported the Bill. Sir J. Wedgwood declared that the Government had chosen a most unfortunate movement and method in appointing the Commission. The measure was likely to do more harm to Anglo-Indian relations than anything the Government had hitherto done. The Indian Assembly’s assent had a right to have been obtained before the appointment. Mr Saklatvhla moved the repeal of the Bill, which he described as an hypocritical attempt to deceive India and the world. The Indians did not want the Commission, but a round table conference.
Several Labourites attacked the Bill, but did not support the retraction. The Bill was read a second time without a division.
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Grey River Argus, 28 November 1927, Page 8
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