द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

222 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE Some of the main points in the Government of India’s Despatch were as follows:

1. The following subjects should be under the control of the British Parliament : defence, foreign relations, internal security, financial obligations, financial stability, protection of minorities and of the rights of services recruited by the Secretary of State, the pre- vention of unfair economic and commercial dis- crimination.
2. The proposal of the Statutory Commission for the abolition of diarchy and the introduction of responsible government (including the department of law and order) in the provinces was approved.
3. The Governor should be given the discretion to appoint officials as Ministers.
4. In Madras, Bombay, Punjab, Central Provinces and Assam, the Legislature should have a single chamber. In Bengal, the United Provinces and Bihar and Orissa there should be two chambers.
5. The separation of Burma was approved in principle.
6. The members of the Governor-General’s Executive Council should be appointed by the Governor-General himself. The Governor-General’s Cabinet while being of a ‘unitary’ character and not responsible to the Legislature, should consist of some elected members of the Legislature who could command some support from that body. On November 12th, 1930, the first session of the Round Table Conference was held in London under the Chairman- ship of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the Prime Minister. It consisted of eighty-nine, members, sixteen from the British parties, sixteen from the Indian States and fifty-seven from British India. The Congress Party was of course unrepre- sented. After the preliminary sittings of the Conference, several committees were appointed to consider the problems in detail. There was the Federal Structure Committee with Lord Sankey as Chairman, the Franchise and Services Com- mittee with Sir William Jowitt as Chairman, the Burma Committee with Earl Russell as Chairman, the Defence