CONGRESS PARTY IN POWER
SELF-GOVERNMENT IN INDIA IMPLEMENTING BRITISH SYSTEM British Official Wireless (Received March 11, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 10. The Lord Privy Seal (Viscount Halifax), at a meeting of the East India Association, said the success of the Congress Party in the provincial elections was an augury for the development of political institutions in that country. Lord Halifax added that India was marching along the parallel roads of democracy and self-govern-ment, and would make a great advance towards the constitutional goal that lay before her. Referring to the tempering influence of responsibility, he said that in the new provincial legislatures responsibility would have full scope for its salutary influence. The present changes, Lord Halifax proceeded, were a prelude to a measure of Federal self-government. The change was probably greater than had ever occurred as a single stage of development in the peaceful evolution of any country. Evolution, not revolution, was the sovereign rule of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and the secret of its vitality.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20674, 12 March 1937, Page 9
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167CONGRESS PARTY IN POWER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20674, 12 March 1937, Page 9
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