Y.M.C.A. Luncheon Club Told of Chief Leaders At the Foreign "Y.M.C.A, Luncheon Club on February 8, Mr. P, Kodanda Rao gave a representative interna~ tional gathering a brief talk on "Personalities in Indian Politics." Mr. Rao, a Journalist and member of the Servants of India Society, was for ten years private secretary' to Mfr. V.
Sastrl whom he described as the Jeader of Indian " constitutionalists, Mr. Rao himself belongs '0 that school which he explained took the line that Home Rule for India could be best secured by parliamentary methods.
Tu "India no controversy raged round Home Rule itself except for small section of European opinion, In England views were more divided. Nevertheless in India the desire to remove the controlling authority from London {o Delhi had overwhelming Support with which Europeans ware also associated. Home Rule was interpreter by some as Dominion Status for India, by others us Independence, Europeans were apt to be frighten: ed at the latter term, but he himself favoured Dominion Status for, judg-Ing from the position of Canada and the other Dominions, that actually gave more freedom" of action than Independence, Mr. Rao id not think that British opinion should' be perturbed by the suggestion that India should be dillowed to decide her own political destiny./ In his travels round the world he had noticed that some countries seemed to get along quite well without British control, Of the new Constitution' he definitely asserted that, the Federal element in it met with unanimous disapproval from political India, cause it meant that the Federal Legislature would be dominated by the Indian Princes who would not Fepresent anyone but themselves—not even their own subjects, Tribute to Mr, Gandht Paying warm tubule to Mr, M. Gandhi as the outstanding polliteai force in India of the last ten years, Mr, Rao regretted that his own al: Jegiances had put him in political opposition to Mr. Gandhi who, though at again withdrawn from present, of Importance was the old'Tlarrovian, gute
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nentv, who though "born with sliver' spoon his mouth," the son of 0 famous and wealthy father, hed, with that father How dead, placed alt'hisvesourees the. disposal ofthe national ent 2tvaha? Ea, sooth by covilin Indi, te had Ween given the highest practic, was. the idol
Honour within the power of Tada Bestow in being made twee President ofthe Indian National Congress Shangha to a fortnight hence: when Mr. R20 is to extend his' stay. in
he makes his way bask to india afer two year" absence from that county, He is anxious to. sluely something of conditions im China an, in asserting that more should be known in Tadie of China, he quickly" reassured his Sudienee' by promising on his return fein na. wits hok on Chinn "our se present Hua, the Mev, RD. Recs the ey,
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