Feeling Runs High During Meeting London, Oct. 4.
Feeling ran high at the Conservative Party Conference at Bristol today when a spirited attack upon the Government's India policy was x8. pelled by the adoption of an amendment to a resolution moved by SIT Henry Page Croft.
'The resolution' expressed the opinion that the partnership between Great Britain and India inthe central government of the Indian Empire "must not be dissolved, and urged the Government to assent 10 no. proposals which imperil the future of India within the Empire.
The amendment, which was cay. ried by the narrow majority of 543 votes to $20, was to the effect that was not in the interests of the party that the Conference should ass any resolution, particularly had been decided that a special meeting of the party council would be held to confer with Mr, Stanley Baldwin when the report' of the Joint Sclect Committee was published.
The proceedings earlier were marked by boos, cat-calls, and cheers When the amendment was declared by a. show of hands, supporters of the defeated resolution demanded ballot. They were openly jubilant the narrowness of the poll, One delegate, a clergyman, paraded the centre of the hall excitedly muttering: "Cast down but not destroyed."
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