VIEWS OF PEERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21983, 14 December 1934, Page 13

VIEWS OF PEERS

AMENDMENT MOVED

"TOO FAR AND TOO FAST"

NEED FOR CAUTION URGED ADJOURNMENT OF DEBATE * By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received December 13. 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Dec. 12 India was also the subject of debate in the House of Lords, where Viscount Halifax moved a resolution accepting the Joint Committee's recommendation as a basis for the revision of the Indian Constitution and considering it expedient that a bill should be introduced on the general lines of the report. An amendment, tabled by the Marquess of Salisbury, expressed unwillingness to pronounce in advance acceptance of far-reaching recommendations until there had been opportunity for considering the particular recommendations which the Government had adopted and proposed in its bill. Lord Halifax maintained that the federation to be set up was the only real solution of India's difficulties.

The Marquess of Salisbury maintained that the Government was going too far and too fast, and there were large numbers of people in India who would disapprove of the committee's majority report when they understood its implications.

The Marquess of Lothian, speaking for the Liberals, said if Britain followed Lord Salisbury's go-slow policy nobody in India would co-operate with us. "It will not stop there," he said. "The issue is going to he between the present proposals and native repression. If civil disobedience again breaks out, we shall inexorably be driven to physical repression, as were other countries in the past when they refused to meet political aspirations." Lord Salisbury's policy would lead to a revolution in India and Fascism there. The debate was adjourned.