Mr. Churchill, a severe critic the Bill, was unexpectedly coneilia tory. He said that he and his friends Idid "not intend to obstruct for the sake of obstruction. His insistence fon provincial autonomy first, which would enable the central government {to intervene to check a deterioration of public services, was rooted to": profound sense of' the need for safe: guarding the interests of the masses.
The measure, 4.0 added, which gave power to's small clique, was not democracy.
Mr, George Lansbury, leader of the "Labour" Opposition,. complained that the Bill had been prepared without real consultation with the In-ians, He urged that Indians should themselves draw up and submits measure which should possess, like other Dominions, theoretical right
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