The Archive · 1930

Dominion Status

Bombay, Dec. 22.

A poll conducted by the "Times of India" among non-official Europ-cans in India has given an 83 per, cent. majority in favour of-dominion status with a responsible central, government, subject to safeguards regarding the Army, foreign affairs, external debt, European and other auinorities.—Reutes, i ment treaty. "It will be of the utmost value if in the intervening period, public opinion can be roused, informed, and convinced of the need for all round veduetion so that it will require the Governments concerned to propose the lowest possible figures for insertion into the treaty at that conferente."—Wireless through Reuter.

New York, Dec. 22.

The famous ex-Seeretaty of State, Elihu Root, who is now chai a of the committee for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, +has issued a state ment drawing the attention of the world to the fact that the Power after the War, in order to induce Germany to disarm, promised them selves to disarm, He suggests that it is an imperative obligation for all the Powers, including the United States, to fulfil that promise without farther delay—Reuter,

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