28 DECEMBER 1934, Page 3

Great efforts are being made behind the scenes to prevent

the use of the guillotine on the India Bill. Mr. Churchill has given an undertaking, I understand, that there will be no obstruction on the part of his followers, provided that ample opportunity is given for the discus- sion of the twenty or thirty amendments that the Diehards propose to move in order to raise the first-class questions of principle involved in the Bill. It would certainly do much to raise the prestige of Parliament if a great con- troversial measure could be carried without resort to the very unsatisfactory weapon of the guillotine closure,

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