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60 tNDIAN OPINION February 27th, 1925
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MR. ASQTJ IT"H
Mr. Asquith, who has retur:'ea :rom Europe, hall
accepted the offer of-an EarldcTI.' and will take the
title of "Earl of Oxford" wlth the sub-title of
Viscount Asquith of Morley
THE I~DIAN DLP"CTATION
Reports appear here of W:J.'l' deputation' of all
parties, Indian and EUJ'Opear Jexcept the Swarajists,
that waIted on the Viceroy a t Delhi yesterday for
the purpose of asking the IndIan Government to
make an effort to get the Sou~h AfrIcan Government
to give an undertaking that no (urther steps tlhould
be taken in regard to -Indiau ''Uterests in South
Africa until th~ whole posltica has been eKamin€)d
by a non-party confet'ence as was suggested by Mr.
J. H. Thomas,' when, as CL'lonial Secretary, he
VIsited South Africa. The l>-lggestioIlB of the deputation
are not advan'ced by Indians for the first time.
Mr. Thomas it IS true gave expression to the same ,
view. But it WilS not many months before his
arrival in South Africa, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, the
President of the South AfrIcan Indian Conference
Ul'i'e~ at the request oC 'the Indian community the
lame 8ug~estion-in terms that such a couference
Ih