INDIAN FEDERATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 151, 29 June 1932, Page 8

INDIAN FEDERATION

MR. CHURCHILL'S VIEWS | ‘•CONSIDERABLY REASSURED." | Received June 29, I a.m. ‘ LONDON. June 28. Breaking in the House of Common.-', .Mr. Winston (‘hurchill confessed that sir Samuel Hoare had considerably reassured his earlier apprehensions that the forces of disorder had been restrained but the constitutional pro gramme was adding to the Secretary of State’s difficulties, creating the very discontent and unrest which required strong measures to allay. What could be a greater embarrassment l-< the Administration than presently bringing out the Lothian report <h>claring that 36,000,000 people were to be enfranchised and thus enable th> return of Congressites to Parliament. The Lothian report was only the cheapest chop logic and crude, semi-obso-lete, half-encrusted principles of midVictorian radicalism. Britain had decided not to follow rhe Roman model of “divine and rule,’’ but ought not to fall into the opposite extreme of “combine and abdicated.” Generally, he welcomed the Government’s decision. which in the main was a return to the old Birkenhead proposals.