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Council of State Debates Official Report Thursday 7th September 1922

1922

HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF : Sir I have the honour to move : That this Council do agree to the recommendation of the Legislative Assembly that the Bill further to amend the Cantonments (House-Accommodation) Act 1902 Mt referred to a Joint Committee of the Council of State and of the Legislative Assembly and that the Joint Committee do consist of ten Members." The motion was adopted [...] He will tell us how further stages of reform are to be granted conditionally upon the co-operation of those in Whom trust has been placed how the British Parliament and the Indian Government are to be judges of the time and the rate of the progress and how in fact further progress depends upon the success of the electorates upon the co-operation of the people and so forth. [...] On Friday the 28th July in the Westminster Gazette which is known to be a Government organ and in the confidence of the Premier there appeared a paragraph with the headline in letters ith of an inch in size reading BIG SPEECHES TO COME " and in the body of the paragraph it was stated that the Premier was to make an important speech on India on the Wednesday following at the Second Reading o [...] It is at this point that the Prime Minister breaks off to deal with the political future of this country—to use again the closing words of the Resolution— but before touching on that I wish to lay stress on the portion of the speech in which emphasis is laid on the fact that the difficulty is not one of finding places in India to put Britishers into but to use the Premier's own words " the diff [...] because he considers the most serious and most trying time is yet to come that the Prime Minister endeavours to make it clear Britain will in no circumstances relinquish her responsibility to India —that responsibility being in the words of the Preamble of the Government of India Act of 1919 the increasing association of Indians in every branch of administration and the gradual development of
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65
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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