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Constituent Assembly Debates Official Report 16th May to 16th June 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 Corn monwealth of Nations as set out in the official statement issued at the conclusion of the Conference of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers in London on April 27 I949." All honourab [...] The Government of India have however declared and affirmed India's desire to continue her full membership of the Commonwealth of Nations and her riecentulee of of the King as the symbol of the free association of its independent member nations and as such as the Head of the Commonwealth. [...] May I read to you perhaps just to refresh your minds the Resolution passed at the Jaipur Session of the Congress ? It might be of interest to you and I would beg of you to consider the very wording of this Resolution : In view of the attainment of complete independence and the establishment of the Republic of India which will symbolise with Inde7Jendence and give to India the status among the nat [...] 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 individual countries—that will survive and no amount of theorimg and no amount of warfare can make the system that does not deliver the goods survive. [...] The recent anti-Indian riots in South Africa the assertion of the all-White policy in Australia and the execution of Ganapathy and the refusal to commute the death sentence on Sambasivan in Malaya in spite of the representations of the Indian Government clearly show that India cannot derive any advantage from the membership of the Commonwealth and the Britain and the other members of the Commonwe
government politics public policy
Pages
965
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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Constituent Assembly Debates Official Report 16th May to 16th June 1949
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