London, June 12.
The House of Commons to. debated a number of draft Orders-in-Council under the Government—of India Act, which will have the effect of bringing into operation the whole of the act except part two relating to the Indian Federation, The Under-Secretary for India, Mr. R.A, Butler, in moving the approval fof the Orders said that, if provincial autonomy were to be inaugurated on April. 1, the next time-table which the Government had in mind was that General Elections should be held approximately eight months hence.
The spokesmen of the. Labour Opposition and the Liberal" Party Joined in wishing the scheme the fullest measure of -success, and Sir Samuel Hoare, who, as Secretary for India, piloted the India Bill through the House of Commons, speaking for the frst time as the First Lord of the Admiralty, added his blessing. He imid a significant and satisfactory fact of the debate was that no one hed suggested that the initiation of provincial autonomy should be delayed Although there had been criticism of some of the financial proposals, As a result of the orders the prov. Inces—several of which were of greater magnitude than some countries—would have the opportunity, for the first time an extended scale of developing their own provincial life.
Mr, Winston Churchill and Mr. L.
Amery, two of the principal cri-tes of the bill, also spoke. Mr. Churchill said he and his friends would do nothing to obstruct the carrying out of the policy which Parliament had approved and Mr. Amery expressed the wish that there might go from the House a message of goodwill to the new provinees and to India as whole—Wireless through Reuter, Marking a compromise between the purity of the orthodox Nazi Racial doctrine and consideration of political order, the Reich Home Ministry on June 13 issued a circular announcing that Turks will, from now on, be regarded as Aryans in Germany, and that none of the Nuremberg racial laws will be applied to them.
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