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Orator James Ramsay MacDonald admitted in 3,000 sonorous words that the $1,000,000 Conference had virtually failed. It broke down on the specific job of trying to draft a new constitution that would make the Government of India responsible chiefly to an Indian Parliament instead of to Great Britain's autocratic Viceroy of India. The larger issue, namely whether India should receive "dominion status" with its implicit right of secession from the British Commonwealth, was not even considered by the Conference-despite the fact that it was the Second Indian Round Table Conference and should have been...
...circumstances Mr. MacDonald could only announce a Third Conference, to be held next year in India, and repeat the assurances with which he closed the First Conference last January, namely, that His Majesty's Government view with favor the setting up of an Indian Federation with an Indian Parliament as the supreme authority in all matters except: 1) defense; 2) foreign affairs; 3) finance...
...have met with obstacles," cried Scot MacDonald, "but one of those optimists to whom humanity owes the most of its progress said : 'Obstacles were made to be overcome.' In that buoyancy of spirit and good will which comes from it, let us go on with our common task ! " Facing a third and nobody knows how many more $1,000,000 conferences, St. Gandhi, who had a heavy cold, received the Prime Minister's oration with no buoyancy of spirit whatever...
...will study your declaration," he said thickly to Scot MacDonald, "once or twice or thrice, or as often as may be necessary, scanning every word of it, reading its hidden meaning if there is a hidden meaning in it-and if I then come to the conclusion, as just now seems likely, that as far as I am concerned we have come to the parting of the ways, it does not matter to us. ... The dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life, and sometimes even blood brothers have got to go each...
...returned by the largest Conservative majority in British history, hurried Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich, pious, ultra-Conservative and politely anxious to sell as much as possible of Canada's towering grain surplus. Last week Mr. Bennett ate the last of several quiet meals with Scot MacDonald and Minister of Dominions James Henry Thomas. Then, without a word for publication, reticent Premier Bennett sailed for Canada while his great and blatant friend, Baron Beaverbrook, trumpeted Bennett achievements...