Jan. 26.
For the moment the British Government is so occupied in futing the arguments of reaction that the liberality of the new Indian Constitution which has now made its bow in Parliament is in danger of being overlocked. Non-British opinion' here, for example, is disposed to believe that the transfer of power comprised in the Bill gives but the faintest shadow of self-gov_rnment to the Federation of India or to the autonomous provinces within that Federation. Howzver, natural this attitude may be. it is quite unjustified by the actual facts "of the constitutional are posals and, indeed, it fails to' op-Preciate the momentous character of the policy which is to Gnd ex-
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