London, Oct, 27.
Many weeks of the new Parlia~ mentary session will be occupied in the House of Commons by a discussion of the Government proposals [for Tndian Constitutional " reform, which was described last night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in a speech fat "York as constituting one of the most dificult and most complex and anxious problems ever set to any nation in the whole history of the world, Mr. Chamberlain said these proposals would be comprised in a vast Bill" containing perhaps between 350 jand 400 clauses. The question had been the subject of the most ex: fhaustive and repeated inquiries and examination, and he deeply regretted that the subject had been the occa sion of serious differences of opinion jin the Conservative Party. Without India could not be left as they were. There was no dispute about that. [The only question to decide was how fast and how far they were prepared {to go in the direction of helping In= diane towards self-government,
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