THE O’DWYER CASE
MR LANSBURY’S MOTION. DISCUSSION WOULD DO HARM IN INDIA. (By Telegraph —Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Router’s Telegrams.) LONDON, June 23. Tn the House of Commons Mr Lansbury asked if the Government would grant time for the discussion of his motion asking for the removal of Mr Justice McCardie from the Bench in connection with his summing up in the O’Dwyer libel case. Mr MacDonald said the Government had come to the conclusion that discussion on the subject would only add to the harm done in India by the words complained of. In the course of his summing up in the case in which Sir Michael O’Dwyer, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, proceeded against Sir Sankaran Nair, formerly a Judge of the Indian Courts, and a member of the Indian Government-, for libel, Mr Justice McCardie said: “Speaking with full deliberation, and knowing the whole of the evidence given here, I must express the view that General O’Dwyer, under grave and exceptional circumstances, acted rightly. In my opinion, he was wrongly punished by the Secretary of State for India.”
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Southland Times, Issue 19279, 25 June 1924, Page 5
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