Council of State Debates Wednesday 30th August 1933 Official Report

The problem in Bajaiir was not so simple for owing to the inaccessibility of the villages in which the agitators had taken up their abode direct action of the nature mentioned above within a reasonable time was impracticable in.fact impossible owing to the destruction by floods of the bridge over the Panjkora River. [...] One practical result of the World Economic Conference was the conclusion of an agreement between the representatives of the countries interested in silver the details of which have already been fully reported in the -press. [...] When I addressed you in February last I ventured to express the belief that the march of events would gradually carry the leaders of the civil disobedience movement further and further away from the sterile methods of negation and obstruction and that they would find themselves caught in the living fore(s of constructive politics which the near approach of the new constitution is releasing on a [...] The success which has been so far achieved in Bengal has been due to an unswerving resolution on the part of the Government of Bengal that this menace should be faced and beaten and to the admirable efforts made in pursuance of that policy by the servants of Government both civil and military and the effective cooperation of all those who have been engaged - in this campaign. [...] No part of the Committee's proceedings has given me greater pleasure than the generous acknowledgments by Indian delegates of the great contribution made to the discussions by the Secretary of State who in the course of his evidence displayed a grasp of these great constitutional issues which evoked tributes from representatives of all sections of opinion in the Committee.