INDIA’S FUTURE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 August 1931, Page 7

INDIA’S FUTURE

THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, sth August. The Indian Round Table Conference Federal Structure Committeo will resume its sittings at St. Janies s Palace soon after sth September, which is the date fixed for the assembling of Relegates at London. The members of the Minorities Sub-committee have been asked to bo in London by 26th September, with a view to resuming business within ten days thereafter. ‘Hie date of tlio meeting of the full conference lias not yet been fixed, but delegates who are not members of Federal Structure and Minorities Committees are asked to reach London by the end of October. A complete. list of the delegates invited to the conference has been issued, and comprise 19 Indian States delegation, 70 British India delegation, and 19 British delegation. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a messago to the diocese, makes an intercession for a spirit of mutual understanding among the delegates of the conference. Ho adds that the work before the conference represents the greatest and most difficult task ever put before the Empire in the long course of its history. It is a demand to exercise patient and constructive statesmanship and his lordship adds that nothing hut a spirit of mutual sympathy and understanding and goodwill among’ tho delegates can find a way through the difficulties.