POLICY IN INDIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 7

POLICY IN INDIA.

DISCUSSION BY CONSERVATIVES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 7. Sharp differences of opinion were revealed at the Conservative Party Conference when an official amendment was moved pi-oposing that any final conclusion on the India White Paper policy should be delayed pending the report of the Joint Select Committee. In supporting the resolution Lords Lloyd and Fitzalan, the Marquis of Hartington, and others represented that the White Paper proposals were fraught with danger to the Empire. Replying to the debate, Mr Neville Chamberlain said that the resolution really aimed at arresting the proposal for central self-government in India, and at confining reforms to something more than the recommendation of the Simon Commission, namely, provincial autonomy in one or two centres first. That was a direct challenge to the Government. While the l-esolution professed confidence in the Government, it really amounted to a vote of want of confidence in the Government’s Indian policy. He suggested that the conference might well hear what the Select Committee thought before setting themselves up to judge this difficult question. The x-esolution was defeated and the official amendment carried by 737 votes to 344.