ANOTHER CHAPTER IN INDIAN HISTORY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19270, 6 January 1931, Page 5

ANOTHER CHAPTER IN INDIAN HISTORY.

IMPORTANT DECLARATION OF POLICY ANNOUNCED

LONDON', January 4. “By wise and timely concessions, British statesmanship might yet enable the Indian Kerenskys to crush the potential Lenins,” .said Mr Isaac Foot, M.P., one of the Liberal delegates to the Indian Round-Table Conference, in a speech in his constituency. Mr Foot added that before the session closed there would be a declaration of British policy which would open a new chapter in Indian history, and which would be one of the cardinal events in the history of the Empire. There was no doubt, he said, that control of Indian affairs must pass to Indians. although the time and the method might be a matter of controversy. The extremists could be defeated, not by British machine-guns, but by responsible Indian politicians. Britain Warned. Pundit Kunzru, an ex-member of the Indian Legislature, addressing the International Congress of the League of Nations Societies at Glasgow said that failure to meet the Indian demand for self-government would lead to a world catastrophe. If the peasantry began a refusal to pay land tax, it would spread a conflagration throughout India which no power was capable of extinguishing. Britain might rule by sheer force for five or ten years, but after that there would be permanent conflict between East and West, a conflict of race and colour!