INDIA’S FUTURE
HISTORIC WHITE PAPER FEVERISH SPECULATION. PROBABLE CONTENTS DESCRIBED By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. (Received 16, 11.45 a.m.) Calcutta, March 15. Speculation is at fever heat regarding the contents of the historic White Paper on the future of India being published simultaneously in England and India on Saturday. It is reliably stated that the following will be the main provisions: A Government of India Bill; inauguration of provincial autonomy without further Parliamentary sanction; inauguration of federal autonomy with responsibility at the centre with Parliamentary sanction after the fulfilment of specified conditions such as the establishment and effective operation of a Federal Reserve Bank and the number of seats allocated. The safeguards are expected to include Viceroys l and Governors’ powers in matters affecting defence, external affairs and ecclesiastical subjects; the protection of minorities; the prevention of grave menace to peace and tranquility in India; protection of the rights of States and prevention of commercial discrimination.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 80, 16 March 1933, Page 7
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