GANDHI PRESENT AT INFORMAL CONFERENCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 March 1931, Page 5

GANDHI PRESENT AT INFORMAL CONFERENCE

' ENDEAVOUR TO FIND WAYS AND MEANS

f: HINDU-MOSLEM PROBLEM NEEDS SETTLEMENT

| INDIAN LEADER AND LONDON CONFERENCE

Rccd. 9.5 a.m. DELHI. March 22. f" IN informal conference was held at the Viceroy’s house, New A Delhi, to explore the question of future procedure for carrying on the work of the Round Table Conference.

Gandhi represented the Congress, and others present included delegates to the Round Table Conference and representatives of Indian States. The ,iCongress position is that participation at the next London Conference is conditional oh the settlement of the Hlndu-Moslem problem.

\ If a settlement is impossible the British Government may intervene and make a declaration on the question of safeguards for minorities. Interviewed, Gandhi said if Lord Sankey and Colonel Wedgwood-Benn .regarded the safeguards evolved by the London Conference as final in substance and form, it was no use of Congress going to London, and the second conference, as far as India’s masses are concerned, must fail. Gandhi doubted that the HinduMoslem question could be settled before the Congress session 'at Karachi on He indicated that when be goes to tLondon, Miss Madeline Slade,“.daughter of the late Admiral Slade, one of Gandhi’s most ardent devotees, now known as Miribai, may accompany him.

WHEAT IMPORT DUTY.

BILL BEFORE ASSEMBLY

DELHI, March 21

The Wheat Import Duty Bill was introduced iu the Assembly by Sir .George Rainy, It proposes an impost two rupees a cwt. till March, 1932. - The i Executive is empowered to reduce or remove the duty in the meantime if circumstances change.