A CONFERENCE ON INDIA
PLAN ROUSES INTEREST FREE AND OPEN DEBATE KING’S SPEECH AWAITED British Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, July 5. It is expected that this week the terms of reference and details of the personnel of the round table conference on India, due to open in London on October 20, will be announced simultaneously in London and India. The King will refer to the future of his Indian subjects when, on Tuesday, he opens India House, Aldwych, His speech, which will be broadcast, will be in reply to an address of welcome by the .High Commissioner.
The composition of the round table conference and its terms of refcience are awaited with great interest. The attendance at the conference of all classes of representative Indian opinion is desired, and the terms of reference are expected to be very wide. Suggestions that a free and open conference will virtually lead to the shelving oi the Simon report -are, however, emphatically denied in official circles, though it is probable Captain Wedgwood Benn will make a statement on the situation in response to Parliamentary questions which will be addressed to him to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1930, Page 9
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