AUTONOMY IN INDIA
- Status Of Provinces Rugby, June 12. The House of Commons to-day held a debate on a number of draft Orders-in-Council under the Government of India Act which will have the effect of bringing into operation the whole of the Act, except Part Two, relating to the Indian Federation. The Under-Secretary for India (Mr R. A. Butler), in moving the approval of the orders, said that if provincial autonomy was to be inaugurated on April 1 the timetable which the Government had in mind was that the general elections should be held approximately eight months hence. The spokesmen for the Labour Opposition and the Liberal Party joined in wishing the scheme the fullest measure of success and Sir Samuel Hoare, who, as Secretary for India, piloted the India Bill through the House of Commons, speaking for the first time as First Lord of the Admiralty, added his blessing. He said that a significant and satisfactory fact was that no one had suggested that the inauguration of provincial autonomy should be delayed, although there had been criticism of some of the financial proposals. As a result of the Orders the provinces, several of which were of greater magnitude than some European countries, would have an opportunity, for the first time on an extended scale, of developing their own provincial life. Mr Winston Churchill and Mr L. C. Amery, two of the principal critics of the Bill, also spoke. Mr Churchill said that he and his friends would do nothing to obstruct the carrying out of the policy which Parliament had approved and Mr Amery expressed the wish that there might go from the House a message of goodwill to the new provinces and to India as a whole.
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Southland Times, Issue 22916, 15 June 1936, Page 7
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