THE KING’S SPEECH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 8

THE KING’S SPEECH

REOPENING OF COMMONS DISARMAMENT EFFORTS PROPOSED INDIAN REFORM (British Official Wireless.) Bee. 21 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 21. The King’s Speech at the opening of the new session, after affirming a desire to promote world peace and reach a satisfactory solution of the. complicated question of disarmament, declares that Hie Government is determined to uphold the work, of international co-operation through the League of Nations. It expresses a hope that the committee on Indian constitutional reform will complete its arduous task in time to enable definite proposals in legislative form to be submitted to Parliament at the coming session.

Referring to the question of disarmament, His Majesty said: “The central purpose of my Government in international affairs is to promote and sustain by every means in its power peace in the world. With this object- in view, the Government will continue to cooperate with other Governments in endeavoring to reach a satisfactory solution of the complicated questions of disarmament in order to achieve a settlement acceptable to all, and attain fruitful results from the prolonged labors of the Disarmament Conference. “Aly Government remained determined to uphold tlie work of international cooperation by collective action through the machinery of the League of Nations, and in all other ways calculated to further good relations between all States and peoples.”

Referring to the Indian constitutional reform proposals, the King said: “I am deeply conscious of the burden of responsibility which lies upon all those whose duty it is to guide, or to take decisions, as to the form of the future government of the Indian Empire, and I pray that wisdom may inform their judgment.” In a later passage in the Speech, the King said the -past year had been marked by a steady growth of confidence in the future of British trade and industry. Reference was made to the intention to continue further to create favorable conditions for the export trade by the negotiation of trade agreements.

Referring to the comprehensive scheme to put unemployed insurance on a sound and permanent footing, and to establish a new system for assistance to and the welfare of-unemploved outside insurance, the King said Parliament would be invited to give immediate consideration to this subject.