GREAT MONUMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 304, 21 November 1934, Page 7

GREAT MONUMENT

OF POLITICAL WISDOM. MR MACDONALD ON INDIA. POLICY REACHES MATURITY. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received November 21, 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 20. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay MacDonald), reviewing the Indian situation]” said the Government would have to give the House full opportunities for a discussion. They hoped every question in the report would come before the House and be discussed, but he did not believe the House would allow them to give a roaming and roving commission day after day and week after week. The report would be in the hands of members to-morrow and the Bill would follow. “The Indian situation,” Mr MacDonald said, “is one that has been steadily maturing on account of the education and political example we have given to Lidia. Whatever ones views may be, it would be sheer folly and blindness to believe that our relations with India, our policy pursued towards India through generations, and the pledges we have given to India would never come to maturity. They have come to maturity now. This moment is not created by any party either in India or here. It has been created by the policy of this country and its relations to its Indian empire.” India must take its place among those great monuments of political wisdom which mark the evolution of their Imperial constitutional fabric. He was convinced this would be the result of the deliberations of the House.

ELECTIONS IN INDIA.

GAINS BY CONGRESS GROUP.

“MUST FACE REALITIES.”

DELHI, Nov. 19. Although the final results will not be known for some days, it is already apparent that the Congress Party will enter the next Legislative Assembly with the largest single party. Congress Party victories include the defeat of Sir R. C. K. Shanmukham Chetty, President of the Legislative Assembly, and Sir H. S. Gour, Leader of the Opposition. The Congress Party anticipate securing nearly 50 seats out of 146. With the support of other parties in important divisions, they hope for a narrow anti-Government majority, but the balance of power will lie with the Moslems under Mr Jinnah.

The Congress programme is chiefly opposition to the White Papper, but a constructive feature of the election results is that the Congress Party, instead of abstaining, must now face some realities in the Assembly. Possibly some agreement may be reached between the Government and the Congress Party, which have hitherto been mutually shaking their fists at one another.