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...Delhi, the splendrous new Capital of British India, it was His Highness the Aga Khan who presided as Chairman of the All Indian Mohammedan Conference (TIME, Jan. 7). On the agenda was a momentous question. Should the assembled Mohammedans endorse the demand that India be given ''Dominion Status" within a year, which was voiced last fortnight in Calcutta by the Indian National Congress, a gathering not of Mohammedans but of Hindus. When the matter had been thoroughly thrashed out and winnowed, last week, the Aga Khan deftly guided the Mohammedan Conference into adopting a resolution which absolutely ignored...
Since it is the virile Mohammedans and not the lackadaisical, jabbering Hindus who might be expected to strike a blow for "Dominion Status," the service of His Highness the Aga Khan to Britain, last week, was worth incalculably more than even the fat Khan's great weight in gold...
After a three day conference with Canadian officials, a United States delegation has returned across the border empty-handed. From its own point of view beforehand, obtaining cooperation from the neighboring Dominion in checking the liquor traffic between the two countries appeared to be comparatively easy; as it resulted, however, not a single proposal was accepted...
Either grant to India full and free Dominion Status before Dec. 31, 1929; or from that day forward the Congress will declare a non-violent but absolute boycott of British goods, British officials, British schools, and British taxes...
...again "His Majesty's Prime Minister in New Zealand." This development, portentous, means that New Zealand has swung away from the intense conservatism and empire loyalty of Mr. Coates, to a judicious but advanced liberalism stopping just short of radicalism. The prolonged unemployment crisis through which the Dominion is still struggling probably accounts for this shift to the left...