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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, 1HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1993.
INDIA'S PARLIAMENT. VICEROY REVIEWS ITS LABOURS.
REFORMS NOT ILLUSORY,
and
ASSEMBLY'S ACHIEVEMENT,
Becusations were lovelled that its main purpose was to place the maximum amount of orlars with British manufac- turers.. Finally, the bureaucratic Covern- ment were charged with having established! for tho perfection of their own ends an H.E. the Viceroy of India (Lordindaly complex and expensive administra- Reading) in a speech at the close of the tive machine, and with having expanded its acthities in directions, not desired by last session of the Legislature said :—
the Indian public and out of proportion ti Before I pass to your achievements.is, Laxlin's resources. the working of the reforms I will examine' the political situation regarding the rock I need hardly recall to you how the case forms. Those who are opposed to the true ar stands in regard to those subjects.. interest of India and are blind to her pusi Fer I know that you count the ensures tion in the British Empire and to the mutual protection and strength the ties meat on the strength, if your representa
which have been atopted by my Green- assure have not been slow to allege reforms are of a transitory nature, that i tion of public opinion in those matter they were the outcome of the litical among the mest priceless pages in your You may perhaps feel that the complexion of 14 moment, that they have neither substauer nor permanency, that as fully accepted, but when you leave you live in short in a fool's paradise whose this House you may assuredly point to palaces and gardens will vanish in the
the cause of which were
that this advocatel are not yet in all
**many
twinkling of an eye, like the passing much bitter tire spicior cansahe
rond
mirage. Nothing Guild mord intrus I came to India immediately after the you in their early growth and now lying have left buy on The ulcerunt, arrest initiation of the reformed Constitution strangled on the pledged to carry on that constitution and immediate attentium but there are other entrusted with special and responsi nattery to be mentioned, particularly as bilities by His Majesty as Governor-General to that eml. On
charge laid they relate to activities of a more construc-
tire character, which will, I trust and that it was as
bace anhuportaut and beneficial pleasure that the plans laid by our Parli
ulia Factoris Amenal Workin' inters of India. fattire ament for the progresive realisation of
At responsible Government in British India the Indian Mines Act and the
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had been passed with the assent tion. The Indian Emigration Act
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then there has been no change and there with the diffent problem of safeguarding the interests of India Who mar emigrate It is the recognised like the
in the announced! find a livelihcoil abroad and a striking Government however constituted. feature of this legislation is that the font dection of mensure for their protection have been changes in
has bem vested in the Legislature itself. changs of parti in power in changes in the personnel of the Secretary No measure before you was hedged about of State for India, but the fundamental dish, racial
such special dificulties as the law to
distinctions but nu Fift policy as regards the Indian reforms has remained unaltered, and it is the unshaken surred in the delicate web of cempremise determination of the British Governamental goodwill and the statute is now with to carry out those Reforms not only in permanrut monument of the mutual desire to work together to a crazon we letter but in spirit.
derstanding. In the Criminal Procedure Amendment Act the Legislature brought to n sucessful enelusion a task of great magnitude and complexity which had occupied the energies of our draftsmen for
early a decade.
cer-cutive
DIFFERENCES WITH ASSEMBLY,
REFORMS NOT ILLUSORY," There has been criticism of the illusory nature of the reforma. Those who wish to hinder the progress of India along her set. tlet path hare charged the reforms with being an empty shell without a cure. They have termed them a dress giving only trappings of reality to dead bols
It was perkings scarcely to be exprete hnd neither life nor force. The achieve that at the present stage of the Constitu ments of the Inding Legislature have been in every divergener of opinion between decreed, their position and privileges have the Government and the Legislative As been ridiculed their motives have hembly would be composed by discussing. misinterpreted their sincerity and patrio Often my Government has accepted the tiem have been attacked. Let history
ties at the Legislature, notwithstanding their judge I
no that these did not coincide with the f confident that 10 mm difficulty will be found in sweeping aside the Executive but a special responsibility these travesties of their earnest and can ha heen laid by the Constitution upon the structive labours. But this is not all. The Geseruor-General in certain cases and in Assembly itself has been at times despon my judgment special powers are essential dent, There have been' moments in this to the discharge of the duties of the Exe-
the House whru voices have been
present state of constitutional been uplifted
In India, nevertheless, the ing on the reforms as niggardly and as a shi wapathy at all time in with occasions of the use of there special powers
am happy to
to observe laudable desires for constitutional advance should be, and I am and longings for a wider horizon, but been, rare. The most recent and notable when I examine the position tue has with the inersity for balancing the Bud
instance of their exercise was in connection tive Assembly has attained, the made of its opportunities. the effect and get. The reasons for the action, which I dignity with which it comthucis its debates felt it incumbent upon me to take at that
action and the broader aspect of its povoked criticisms. I have no intention
time, have been published.. My fire.
I
[cel but Cannot
that the Assembly reopening the discussion sate, time takes fat too narrow and restricted add that in my opinion subsequent events a view of its potentialities, atal regl influ have tended to confirm the wisdem of
spret that sentiment en original decision. The responsibility was with now alone, occasion tends tr
who the vision of these solemn promises of the I trust that those in the Assembly British Government and of the Charter · cl have felt and
and expressed themselves strongly Indian Liberties of which the Goverment on the subject will leave this Hop with
"Weigh of Indin Att is the reposi
sitory.
for out any feeling of bitterness holding to and nower
E their for a moment the
as their opinian
en-cloner Day the representative element of this House dicte and acknowledging the same liberty against that of its predecesser, the Im to others who may differ from them among perial Legislative Council. Compare the whom I esunt myself. My Government have realities of its responsibilities with the pre to acknowledge A continuous
And existing conditions. Reflects the estab measure of support in Lines & disturbare. lishment on a firm basis in this House of and agitation from the Legislature and in Parliamentary traditions and on their in general a steady influence exerted for the 'calculable effect on the future
arler. I have sníð
the policy of the Government of India.
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assured kaps find the pree of progre... tuo my office and to ask you to judge how far slow but es veu noiit to greater achieve this has changed and how far your allments for India during so brief a perial ence and action have contributed to this of time! Would other mens have scccns=" change. When I first came to India i was at plished pains to get into touch with the political thought, to hear the grievaners and study the Press, so that I might acquaint
myself with the matters which appeared to before then Destruction, not construc- A kubject of general complaint, Ay, in an is their avowed aim. They would wreck the reforma, What have they accom- pression of the burning questions
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position was represented as
as showing a total
the
in this spirit that I ask those who
want of confidence in Indin and as strungave the interests of Inika in their hearts ling, the material expansion of the country to use their influence in the coining elec
weight of Army Though Indiansation had begun in the secure rond to the attainment of her cher
tion to help. India: forward by the only A expenditure. Civil Services the absence of
any
ishil desires, regular of Indianisation of the Army was
sche a proof of the mistrust of I
dians by the British element and as effectually to prevent the ultimate realization of responsible self-Government in India. A like suspicion was alleged to be at the root of the failure to associato elected representatives of the people in nil- visory capacities with the problems
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