INDIA’S CONSTITUTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21650, 21 May 1932, Page 11

INDIA’S CONSTITUTION

WORK OF COMMITTEES STATEMENT BY LORD LOTHIAN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 19. Lord Lothian, chairman of the Indian Finance Committee, readied England to-day, having travelled from India by air. He referred in a statement to the interest which the various committees appointed after the Round Table Conference had aroused in India, and paid a tribute to the co-operation and friendliness displayed towards the members. He added: “ Indian public opinion has certainly taken a most lively interest in our proceedings, and will take not a less lively or controversial interest in our proposals when they are published early next month. There is no doubt that the dominant feeling in India to-day is the desire that the Government and Parliament should come to decisions about the new Constitution with the least possible delay. During the last four years committees have been touring India, and a conference has been held in England on every aspect of the new Constitution. What the people .in India want to-day —British business men and civil servants, no less than the Indians themselves—is to know where they are. The sooner decisions can be taken —if possible agreed decisions—and action taken upon these decisions, the better will India be pleased and the sooner will political conditions settle down.