London, Mar. 13.
The King has approved the following appointments:
Lord Ponsonby to. be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Ju sue-Session to Major Clement. Richard Adee, Who, hasbeen appointed Postmaster-General; Mr. Henry Snell," ct. Labour M.P. for East Woolwich since 1922, {o be Under-Secretary of State for India in succession to the late Earl Russell; and Mx. John Allen Parkinson, at2,, ty be Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport in success: sign. to. Lord. Ponsonby "The King has conferred a barony 42m Mr. Henry Snell, The new peer started his education at a. village school and later proceeded to Nottingham University College. He also attended the London School of Teonomies and: Heidelberg Univer-'Reuter. when the debate on India began on the Civil" Estimate' vote. Mr. Stanle~ Baldwin, the leader of the Conservative Party, opened the fe recalled the terms of the issued in 1917, reiterate ig the views of his party that it recognized the Empire as a living} organism. It was in' a constant process of evolution, he remarked, a process which was' being speeded up, Few could have foreseen, ey years ago, to where that pro-88 of evolution would have brought the relations of the great! Dominions with the Mother Country. It could not be supposed that, in this world of evolution India alone was static, Mr, Baldwin declared the Conservative Party stood exactly where it did on January 26 when a star ment, which had not yet been Tenged, was made by Lord Peel. It stood exactly where it stood in the speech he delivered last week at Newton Abbot, in the course of which he said: "Our objective is clear: namely, the objective of an Al Federation. But when we must ye. dif fore we can attack it" He had then added that what they had present was only the frame-work. The details were not filled in, and many of them would present serious difi-
Apart from the pledge of an honest attempt to confront these difficulties and thus to carry on the work of the Round-Table Conference, the Conservative Party was not committed, declared the leader of the Conservative Party. The Round-Table Conference of the essential safeguards clearly for India without surrendering any and definitely stated and. fundi mental in any future" settleraent, would only add this. In spite of what, you may have read or heard, the Party ce-operation which has existed in this country "since the setting up of the Simon Commission ig not broken and remains exactly where it was'
Referring to what has appeared! in the press within the last forty-eight hours, Mr. Baldwin said there had been a great deal of excitement about nothing. It was perfectly obvious that, after the Conclusion of the Round-Table Con- Com ference, the Government mast decide on' the next steps for continu: ing its work. It was a simple mat. ter of procedure. The Government, doubtless considered divers courses of action. One suggestion advanefed for the consideration of the Conservative Party involved sending} delegates o India; and his view on that subject was shared by the colleagues he consulted, including the four delegates who represented the Conservative Party at the recent} Round-Table Conference in London, namely that, at this juncture, it such words as "victory" and "'surrender."
have been told that 1 ssu dered to Mr. Churchill (laughter) There has been no surrender and there has been no victory, But the has been a victory in commonsense, Mr, Baldwin quoted, amid laughter, the words" of Mr. Winston Churchill in 1920 with reference to Egypt, emphasizing particularly the remark the latter made on that occasion that: "The British way of doing things implied a close and perpetual' ce-operation with the eeries of the country, and) this been nowhere so successful as} in India." "With a smi added that there could Detter summing up of the situation than Mr. Churchill's speech on that occasion, Such conclusions of the conversations between Lord Irwin ud Mr. Gandhi as have been reached, continued atr. Baldwin, could not have been reached in the circumstances ti Congress Party, However, fide, the advantages of this plan were " outweighed by important Practical considerations, including Fre exigency of. the fiom here. and the necessity touch preliminary work in fea, 97 Indians, in" partlelar "some of the questiae left open by. the Minor:
Sub-committee. The Govern. leaders of every Party in re-estab: lishing contact with the Indian side of the Conference and as soon the Indian delegates, including. representatives of the' Indian Con: ress Party' were prepared. to ree ume the discussions. they proposed to invite them to London to resume the work of the Federal Relations Committee, They hoped that this Committee's deliberations would pro-ress here during the summer, Meanwhile, any expert. investiga ion of particular problems. recom-
London, Mar, 12.
Regular air mail service between England and. Australia with—re= duced tail schedules between England and China asa" consequence was the project which to-day received the concentrated attention of British Post Office, official 'The United Press learned." tha the opening of London' to Austra Tia day and night high speed ayin tion services concerned solely with the transportation of, alrmalis is Secupying" net onl) the attention.
Post Office but of the Ait Ministry expected that definite ar= rangements for the new and ambitious service will. be started. late this' surnamer. "Thus," an expedited service Will transport airmails from sport London to Calcutta in 5h days, Mail will be carried from London to Singapore in 7 days. Mail for China and Japan next autumn can be taken from London in Singapore in 7 days, From Singapore it can by any other Englishman than Lord mended by the Round. be trans-shipped to ports in China ference would be undertaken.—By and Jay nas well as the Philip Irwin. Tt was a great tribute to his acter—a character which had these means the whole would be, they hoped, ready for], problem Pine Islands. driven him a prestige in' India "that thing else could forded Fal aischesog early la the agtomm, bring. Sumatra. and Borneo nearer The greeted service will also hey could not Judge the ult 'Mr. Winston Churchill declared to' London, ly in the event
din and at Home died hard and yet, Exteemicm fu Tu. six that the developments of the weeks might be the subject of Singapore ines are opens with Slowly, but whatever happened the settlement had. definitely enlarged thee, whol met Jo been dettely eacided. whee the area of goodwill and of coment of an All-India."
Federation ther, the projected Asiatic ines should connect at Calcutta or Sing-operation. with responsible government as the The question of the constitutional apore. government of Ini prrcuiser of li Dominion state, wut that less enthusiasm was par: To-day it was declared certain that the next airmail service to by far the most important, the most donable in those who thought there opened by the British Government dificult Imperial question we had that from England to Aus-ever had to face. "More important Proeses Premature, dangerous, and ikely to lead. to." confusion " and even than Party unity was the unity disaster. Nevertheless, he said, the of all parties on this subject. direct overland route si will probably follow the fact, that, the Conservative. Party 0 was firmly convinced that wr would not be represented at any} that followed by commod appeared In the "Daily
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