Speakers who followed the Attorney-General included Mr. Winston Churchill, who prefaced his certieism of the bill by referring to the declaration that Dominion status was the ultimate goal of British policy in India as a grave new fact.
He admitted that he himself had Htoosely and unwisely used the phrase [immediately after the War, but later, itwasleftin many quarters that such vague and indefinite phrase ought not to play its part in the revision of the Indian Constitution, Mr. Churchill claimed that they were entitled to clarification of Sir [Thomas Inskip's statement, ready used.
Sir Samuel Hoare's statement was intended to have precisely the same importance and to be treated with the same respect as if the Government had been able to put it into the preamble. It would be extrem ly ai@icut to frame suitable language for the formal statement of the preamble The Statute of Westminster did not mention, still less define, Domi-ion status' and did not alter it at
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