Council of State Debates Thursday 7th September 1922 Official Report

: Will Government be pleased to state if there is any truth in the report published in the English newspapers that the Home Government insist on the Government of India to carry out the permanent regular occupation of the Ladha line in Waziristan although the Government of India are strongly opposed to the same ? his EXCELLENCY Tll COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF : There is no truth in the report that the Home [...] The HONOURABLE MAHARAJA SIR MANINDRA CHANDRA: NANDY : Will the Government be pleased to lay on the table a report -of the progress made so far in the various provinces with regard to the establishment of a Territorial Force in India ? HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF : A statement is laid upon the table showing the authorised establishment and the actual enrolments of each of the Territoria [...] 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 diffi