'The King devoted an entire para. graph in his speech to. the report Joint Select' Committee on Tndian Constitutional Reform.
pray that both Houses of Parlia. ment' will approach the task which Hes before them with the single aim of furthering the well-being of my) empire," he said, 'King George expressed satisfac. tion with the progress of economic recovery, "although factors adverse to full' resumption of international trade still exist.
"My. earnest hope is that the! coming year will be marked by continuation of the spirit of contldence and enterprise which has! enabled this country to take the Toad in world recovery," he said.
Foreshadowing coming legislation, the king said that the serious posi= tion of tramp shipping under. the British flag called for early treat ment, and Parliament would be invited to consider a measure fo: providing temporary assistance this regard.
Other important legislation, he) added, would deal with overcrowd-in the slums, assistance in dis. and acceleration of perial Airways communications. Reuter and United Press London, Nov. 20.
There was a large attendance when the House of Commons re-assembled this afternoon and members suen settled down to. the work of the new and important session.
The Address to the Throne was moved and seconded, as usual, by private members—on this occasion Mr. N. Kerr Lindsay and Col. C. 1. Kerr—and both the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. George Lansbury, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay, MacDonald, were early speakers in the debate which followed and which is expected to take five days.
Turning to India, the Prime sunster ald that the Government would have to give the House full op. portunity for discussion, but, in saying that, he did not thean' licence. They hoped every question in_the Report of the Joint. Select Com: mill tee would come before the House and be discussed, but he did not believe the House' would allow them to give a roaming and roving con: mission day after "day and week} after week. The Report would be in the hands of the members tomorrow and a bill would follow.
"The Indian situation," he said, is one that has been steadily matur ing on account of the education ana political example we have given to India. Whatever one's views may be, it is sheer folly and blindness t0 believe that our relations with India, our policy pursudl towards In-la' "through generations "and the pledges we have given to India, would never come to maturity. They have come to maturity now. This moment is not created by any party] either in India or here. It has been created by the policy of this country fand its relations to its Indian Empire."
He hoped they would be given! the" opportunity" of building the] structure which would take {ts place among those great monuments of political wisdom which marked the! evolution of their imperial constitu. Monal fabric. He was—convinced this would be the result of the de-Uberations of the House.—Reuter and Wireless.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.