INDIA DEBATE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 80, 13 March 1931, Page 5

INDIA DEBATE

HOUSE QF COMMONS CROWDED GALLERIES BALDWIN’S TELLING SPEECH Press Association. —Copyright. (Reed. 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 12. When the India debate commenced the galleries of the House were crowded with visitors, including many turbaned Indians. Mr. Stanley Baldwin’s chief passages were much cheered, particularly his references to the “Daily Mail” and his striking personation, “If there are those and if there is a majority in our party who would approach the subject in a higgling, grudging spirit, who would have forced from their. reluctant hands one grudging concession after another, in God’s name let them choose a man to lead them. If there is a minority, let them at least refrain from throwing difficulties in the way of those who have undertaken an almost superhuman task, upon the successful fulfilment of which depends the well-being, prosperity and duration of the whole Empire.”