APPEAL MADE FOR THE TEAM SPIRIT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 7

APPEAL MADE FOR THE TEAM SPIRIT.

RAMSAY MACDONALD AND INDIAN PROBLEM. (United Press Assn.—By Electrlo Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (Received March 16, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, March 15. The Prime Minister, In a speech at Northampton, appealed to his party to show the team spirit in the face of the present exceptional difficulties. He dealt with many current questions Referring to India, he said the Viceroy at Delhi and the Government in London were doing their best to get India to understand the mind of Great Britain. Until they had done that it was rto use talking about the new constitution. A mental attitude of confidence and trust was essential to a continuance of the negotiations. With their colleagues representing the Liberal and Conservative parties, he thought they had done something which justified them in hoping that when they came to closer grips with the actual details of laying the stones and devising the architecture the further work would be successful, and India and Britain would continue their co-operating under one Crown.

Lord Hardinge, a former Viceroy of India, in a letter to the Conservative candidate at the St George’s byelection, London, says he has just returned from a three months’ stay in India. He says: “I am convinced from all I heard and saw in India that the policy that Lord Irwin is pursuing offers the best hope for a peaceful solution of a very difficult problem, both in the interests of India and this country.”