Calcutta, Jan, 17. point, and one of the more sincere Pandit Madan Mahan Malaviya claims. (the leader of the Hindu Mahasabha very, powerful religious and man) that Ke'will recognize silks We think
Social organization) making} merit in some of those who. do not Gtronuous "efforts to rally those gee that would be a service to forees both within and outside the Congress who believe that Dominion status for India is more, feasible than independence, In an interview with the "Statesman" in Calcutta during the week-end he regretted that the publication of the Simon Commission's report had been de-Tayed. until April. This, he _main~ tained, had given the impression that Britain did not wish the roun table conference to be held until the end of the year. realise what a disastrous effect on "1 wonder if jpoonle in England Utterance Mike that of Earl Russell hius_on the edifice of confidence and oodcwill which Mx. Wedgwood Benn Ghd Lord Tewin have been ondeavour-Ing fo. bol hen hon ape of Indian "being trained
frayed his tenor tory of ins he bo-SFinaia, fom. which any school Boy might have told him that Indians is country to set up as early as wishes the constitution that he! ubliak the statement which
Visit to, Caleatta With his opinion he Pandit made during his week-end of Earl Russell's ext marks we have already ment? mo onecetth anu a of the eplaade will consider' them by of the. attention they they may have' rious ary reluctant £0 believe with Pandit "isaviya "that" anyone "eat ferioualy interpret the of the Simon tre he Site agen She show both ignorance. a Facial arrogance, is that the, evi effect which they produce cannot Gasily to, counteractedaby subsequent oodtgth anaes unfortunate, that snnouncenont. that Sie John Simon lowing the speeches, has come the font ile Report to" Patliae ly in April. This looks Tike fend of this year, if not next year. Heals were trae, tution of India's should strive to ference and" by. making. wp. thole by expediting Ininds, to" support" the oxeation Dominion. status. for India at' the Impending revision. of with such transitory.
tay be found ete the statesmen of Groat Britain Uesize that Indians should continue be their" fellow-eltitens, they
willing 4 treat them. a3. sach, by should giv, evidence that they are Shavnlg duo regard for their wishes Pandit Malaviya declared that he himself did not take Lord Russell's Feported speech very seriously; nor would he assert it as his own opinion that the Simon Report had. been postponed to delay the round-table Conference. Those were simply the conclusions, he said, which many Indians had inevitably drawn from the two incidents mentioned.
Pandit Malaviya took his stand boldly against the weight of nurabers in Congress, and he remains resolved not to allow the inde-snee-walles in that party.to I their own way. "Unlike many of his colleagues he can under: stand a point of view and yet critical of it both negatively and constructively: he can sympathize with. the sentiment provoking the ery for independence but none the Jess recognize the. practical dificult ies which it overlooks. Among the men who require that India'should. be granted full Dominion Status in the immediate fature he is probably one of the more far-sighted and the most broadly, appreciative: -of the' British statesmen's stand-
'A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Council of the Europ-can Association place before the Viceroy Secretary of State for Indis Association's opinion that the London Round Table Conference should held in 1980 rather than in 1931 as has sometimes been suggested. The Executive Committee, mor over, argue in favour of holding the Conference as soon as practicable after the publication of the Statutory Commission's Report. On the whole it is probably better that the Conference should be held some time in the course of the present year, though in no event does one envy whoever has the task of selecting the representatives, drawing up the terms of reference, or presiding over the deliberations.
In favour of holding the Con ence in the earlier year is the fact that for over two years India hi deen torn with the fiercest political discussions and agitation. As a result there is general unsettlement which is certainly not good for the economic or Constitutional progress of the country. The Simon Commission was appointed towards the end of 1927 and Sir John Simon and his colleagues paid their first visit to India in the spring of 1928. They paid their second and prolong. ed visit daring the cold weather of 1928-1929. Nearly a year has elapsed since they left India but it is reckoned that another two months will pass before the Report will the light of day; meanwhile, there is the Report of the Indian Central Committee to show us that Indian Moderates have. their di ferences almost, as acute as. the which at the present moment are splitting the Congress asunder. In short, nearly two and a half years of ceaseless political discussion has brought forth remarkably little in the way of understanding. hes? years have but served to show how Goop and fundamental are the ferences dividing Indians from one another to, say nothing of Indians] from Europeans.
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