Committee's Report waa published. {in accordance with his promise, Mr. Baldwin undertook to meet the Conservative Party in_ conference before the introduction of the relevant Bill order to obtain a clear indication of the Party's considered views in the light of the Report which super-soded all previous documents authoritative representation of the Constitutional plan for India Tt was clear from the memoranda tabled with the Report that the quis of Salisbury was in disagreement With the majority of the Committee, He naturally became the leader of the opposition to Mr, Baldwin at Tuesday's meeting of the Party The general appreciation of the situation may be summed up thus: the Conservative leader has been content to allow the opposition to have fis head so long as the pro= Posals were sub judice. He now Glearly demands shat those who profess to follow him must either fat behind him and his colleagues in
joint Select Committee's proposals "Government in support of. the Ind the resultant Bill or lake the obvious course. By this step it has been expected that the residue of the opposition wil. shrink to about ity of the Conservative members of the present House of Commons, in cluding Sir Henry Page Croft" and Dessibly Mr. Winston Churehit. It Mr, Baldwin were unable to carry Tuesday's" meeting with him, his position would probably be impos-Bible and his resignation might be expected with consequent danger to, the existence of the present Government as a whole, Mr. Baldwin Hailed London, Dee. 4 The momentous conference of the Council of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associa tions, specially summoned to decide the Tory attitude on the Govern~ ment's Indian policy, opened here: this morning.
An air of suppressed excitement prevailed as 2,000 delegates from all parts of Great Britain assembled at Queen's Hall to deliberate on the Select Committee's report on India.
Numerous M.P.'s were seated in the body of the hall, while many members of the Cabinet were on the platform. The arrival of Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council and leader of the Conserve tive Party, was the signal for great Durst of cheering.
All speeches were imited to ten minutes, with the exception of those of the proposers and seconders of the resolution approving the Report and of the amendment to it, These were limited to fifteen minutes, but Mr. Baldwin was allowed to speak for an unlimited time.
"We are" meeting before even preliminary discussions on the Report of the Select Committee have Occurred in Parliament" declared Mr. Baldwin In opening the proceedings.
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