Word: indian-born
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...hard to find much more that the Conference did accomplish. In the name of His Majesty's Government, Sir Samuel, a stalwart Tory, refused to fix a date for the establishment of an Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round...