New Delhi, Jan, 24, An earnest address to-day by the viceroy, Lord Willingdon, to a packed Legislative Assembly, coincided with the publication of the Govern ment's India Bill in London, The Viceroy declared that he was convinced the scheme would give India an opportunity to mould her future nearer to her heart's desire.
He advocated that Indian lead: work during the secure. improv points which they attached importance, and counselled them to take the scheme og the only path likely in a reason Tength of time to bring the rear {deal of an Indian Federation within their reach Lora Willingdon said it had al been his desire to see Indi position on terms of complet with other members of Commonwealth. As India's problems, however, differed from those in other parts of the British Empire, ner Constitution may take a different form. Lord Willingdon concluded by declaring he was convinced that the path of the "All-Indian Federation would lead to India's sure advance. Reuter, Every Phase Dealt With London, Jan, 23, In the course of a speech at Oxford to-day, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, said that the Government of India But was the biggest and perhaps the most complex bil! ever introduced into Parliament.
Tt would deal with every phase the future government of India and would contain proposals for_setting up an all-India federation, constitu tional schemes for eleven great prov-Incas, several of them more popu-Jous than some of the chiot states the world, and a new constitution for Burma, henceforth to be separates) from India. unnecessary Apprehension Critics here thought all polities! power was being surrendered into the hands of an unrepresentative group of political demagogues and theorists.
Ili both cases, the actual working. of the constitution would show that there had been unnecessary apr hension. Common sense and past 2 perience justified this prophecy.
Tu the past fifteen years, the logie. tures and ministers in India 1ad shown a spirit of responsibility whirl, hud been noteworthy in circumstan ces not conspicuously favouring responsibility.
in actual practice, it would 92 found that there would be no moe {atures and ministers to stage con stitutional breakdowns.
Much would, of course, depend upon the governor-general and the governors. The intention of the new Constitutions would be to extend the sphere of their political guidance and diminish that of their executive action.
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