INDIA’S FUTURE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 June 1930, Page 7

INDIA’S FUTURE

( COMAIENT ON REPOET. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). LONDON. June 24. “The Times’’ says “The Commissioners are profoundly convinced that tl'te prospieet of periodical investigation# Iliad a disastrous effect upon the working of the constitutional changes introduced a decade ago. In the light of their emphatic opinion no one will he likely Hereafter to maintain a programme* of s autonomy by instalments avs against steady progress by natural evolution. The delicate plant of selfgovernment will in future! prove itself by its fruits, and will not he dug up at regular intervals for ■standardised inspection. There is no longer any reason why the States and provinces sbonld all lie expected! to fit- into a common mould. Since the need for a central Legislature remains, the method of Federalism will enable Tndia to meet it is a united states and as most of the British Dominions have I met in the past; tha t is. by the cooperation of a number of autonomous units, grown to political self-conscious-ness through responsibility for their own affairs’ and able to determine for themselves the ultimate form of the common structure.” The “Dailv Alnil” regards the Simon report' as the death-blow to Dominion statust , , The “Dailv Herald” says: ‘The Simon report is far from preparing the wav for rapid transformation to self(rflvenimcnt. It seems to tend toward indefinitely stabilising the essentials of the present system. The powers of the Viceroy and the Governors are the negation of self-government, which is fatal to acceptance even by moderates.”