The Archive · 1931

A Noble Appeal

Lord Irwin's appeal to the Logislative Assembly at New Delhi is obviously made with a close eye on the proceedings of the Round Table Conference, Clearly the one remaining obstacle to the formulation by that Conference of a reasonable and acceptable scheme of responsible government is the Hindu-Moslem impasse, The Viceroy, coming to the.end of his term of office, repeats "the exhortation which in his first year ho so cloquently made at Simla, If Mr. Gandhi's mental processes could be Judged by normal standards the call now sounded by Lord Irwin should be irresistible; so far as the Conference advanced on the road along which Mr, Gandhi himself professes to desire to go that acceptance of the hand now preferred by the Viceroy is honourably possible. Moreover the ternarist threat which has grown in its prue-some folly should be opposed by Mr. Gandhi as much as by the Government now in power for if it be not mastered it will assuredly develop into a deadly menace to any future government which may ret up in India,

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