POLICY IN INDIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 27, 2 January 1931, Page 7

POLICY IN INDIA

IMPORTANT DECISIONS. „-’k. MOMENTOUS MEETING. DISCUSSIONS AT DOWNING STREET. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 31. A momentous meeting of Conservative, Liberal and Labour members of the British delegation to. the India Round Table Conference was held at Downing Street last evening as a sequel to a week-end conference at Chequers. At this conference there were present the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, the Secretary for India, Captain W. W. WedgwoodBenn, officials of the India Office, and experts from tho conference. It is believed that important decisions were reached, and that these will form the broad lines of the Government’s policy. Mr MacDonald outlined the views formed by the Government after consulting with expert advisers. The Daily Herald says that the principle of responsible self-government is already virtually agreed to, but it is not stated hv whom. It is understood that the Indian delegates are prepared to accept a limited period of reversion to Vice-Regal control of defence, foreign relations, and tho maintenance of tho Aden and Persian Gulf protectorates. . . A more difficult question is the measuro of financial control for the purpose of safeguarding the interests of British officials, ex-officials and British creditors of tho Government of India.