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Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Monday 16th May 1949

1949

President Sir I have the honour to move the following motion:— Resolved that this Assembly do hereby ratify the declaration agreed to by the Prime Minister of India on the continued membership of India in the Commonwealth of Nat'ons as set out in the official statement issued at the conclusion of the Conference of the Commowealth Prime Ministers in London on April 27 1949." All honourable [...] desire to continue her full membership of the Commonwealth of Nations and her acceptance of the King as the symbol of the free association of its indeden dent member nations and as such as the Head of the Commonwealth. [...] reference in connection with the Ctunmonwealth to the King as the symbol is mbo1 of that rtssociatiot t. Observe that the reference is to the King and not to the Crown. [...] I have no doubt at all that ultimately it will be the system that delivers the goods the goods being the advancement and the betterment of the human race or the people of the individudi countries--thitt wi I survive and no amount of theoriing and no amount of warfare can make the >v-stem that does not deliver the goods survive. [...] The recent anti-Indian riots in South Africa the assertion of the alWhite policy in Australia and the execution of Ganapathy and the refusal to commute the death sentence on Sambasivan in Male: a in spite of the representations of the Indian Goernment clearly show that India cannot derive any advantage from the membership of the Commonwealth and that Britain and the other members of the Com
government politics public policy
Pages
35
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Taking the Pledge and Signing the Register
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Condolence on the Death of Shrimati Sarojini Naidu
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Programme of Business
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Resolution Re Ratification of Commonwealth Decision
2-31 unknown view