Referring 1o the question of Dominion status, Sir Thomas. Inskip said that the declaration made by the Secretary of State for India last Wednesday—ahe Dominion status was the ultimate goal of British policy Tndia—had not merely the assent of the Government but expressed their considered judgment.
To put that declaration in the bill, however, would be interpreting an interpretation—more likely to darken counsel than to elucidate words al-outside the British Empire, or the constitution intended to. be' used, to take India out of the Empire, They were told that they were taking great risks in this blU, but was there ever a time when the British nation was not taking risks? The whole Empire was one history of risk wisely taken, The Government felt this question had been so long pondered, so widely discussed by men of goodwill and of experience, that they might fo forward in the hope that their {intentions would be accepted for what they were worth, and that India might, after this great debate, realize that the people of Great Bri-fain were prepared now to lend all their efforts to enable the peoples of India to attain what she hed taught Jthem to desire—full stature of Manhood within the British Commonwealth.
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