LOSSES TO INDIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 9

LOSSES TO INDIA.

QUARRELS OVER CONSTITUTION.

(British Official Wireless.) KuGflf, June 1

A renewal of the appeal to the Congress Party of India io accept office and the responsibilities of Government wiiu made by the secretary of State tor Lidia (tile Marquess of Zetland) at a private meeting of Conservative members of Parliament last night. Alter paying a trrbute to the way in which the new Governments were facing their tasks, Lord Zetland said he still regarded it as a tragedy that many nun of brilliant attainments and of lngb. ideals were being Jost to the service of India as a result of the failure to appieciate the intentions of the framers or the new constitution and of the actual delations between the Governors and Ministers contemplated hy its provisions. •*jt have an abiding faith,” added Lord Zetland, “in tbe great qualities and, in particular, in the constructive genius or the Hindu people, and in lace of much discouragement I still believe that they are destined to devote themselves to the service of India. Is it too much to ask that they should not spurn the collaboration that Great Britain in all sincerity is offering them, or that they on their part should not withhold the co-operation which Great Britain is asking trom them, in the common task, winch is not only worthy of the united efforts of the two peoples, but also, in the light of history, is their obvious destiny ? Let that be my appeal to them at' this most fateful juncture in our common history.”