BRITISH INDIAN POLICY

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1934, Page 7

BRITISH INDIAN POLICY

POLITICAL PASSION HIGH CONSERVATIVES CONFER MOTION’S NARROW ESCAPE BACK BENCHERS’ DELIGHT By Telegraph—" Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 4. Political passion ran high throughout a debate upon the Government’s India White Paper policy at the Conservative Party’s annual conference. The Government’s policy escaped defeat by only 23 votes. ■ Sir Henry Page Croft proposed a motion which urged that while the gradual granting of a greater measure of selfgovernment within the provinces should be supported the partnership of Britain and India and the Central Government ■ of the Indian Empire must not be dis- i solved. The •■notion was defeated by’ s43 - votes to 520. V

Critics of 7 the Government demanded a secret ballot and the result was greeted with shouts of delight by anti-Govem-ment back benchers, who regarded the figures as a moral victory. The Daily Express expresses the opinion that, the nearness of the voting threatens the future of the whole Government’s scheme of Indian reform.