The Archive · 1929

AMERICANS' SPENDING MANIA

Effect of Stock Exchange All Through Country present legislatures as soon Simon Commission's report is out and the Secretary of State for India has made a declaration of policy. The idea seems to be that the voters will have the cut and dried attitude of the British people before them and this will enable them to give any mandate they like their representatives in the The possibility of a general election in India after the publication of the Simon Commission's report was predicted some months og: The British Parliament cannot be 0 unreasonable as to rush legis tion through and then ask India either to accept or reject the same. It will do nothing of the kind. The dissolution of the legislatures must therefore follow the publication of the Simon Commission's report and the declaration of the policy by the Secretary of State for India.

In this connection it is believed that the Labour Government has ynned the definite idea that no constitution for India can work satisfactorily if it is not accepted by the politically-minded people,

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