Dec. 30.
The "Trinity" Building at New Delhi which, under the shadow of the Imperial Secretariat, provides three semi-circular chambers for the Chamber of Princes, the Council of State and the Legislative Assembly respectively has an architectural secret, The panelled interior of the Legislative Assembly, where 140 members now sit, is constructed so that, at the suitable moment, it can be expanded by the mere process of removing the present panels and throwing into the chamber additional space for the accommodation of an enlarged body. Herein lies a symbol of the transitional character of the existing Constitution for the inauguration of which the building was erected according to the plans of Sir Herbert Baker. The provision thus displayed—exemplifies the consistency of British policy in India and is a reminder of the comparative irrelevancy of many of those political diversions which have attracted public attention during the past, five years. The Third Roung Table Conference has come to a business-like conclusion. The ground has been cleared for continuance of the work begun in 1919 by the passing of the Government of India Act, carried on by the labours of the new created Legislatures from 1%~ to the present-day, reported on, according to the statute, by the Simon Commission, and' now to taken into formal consideration by Parliament, after due regard has been paid to the opinions of representative Indian groups, in the framing of a new and permanent Constitution. Many contemporary surveys of the Indian situation would suggest that, owing to an abnormal uprising of Indian resentment, the Government of. Great Britain were endeavouring. to placate agitation by effecting. some tour de force. Critics affect to believe that from the unwilling hands of Great Britai India is snatching powers which Jotherwise would have been withheld. They have failed to observe that, apart from the process of constitutional inquiry, there has been, during the. last thirteen years, a steady Jabsorption of Indian personnel into.the highest places in the official' hierarchy. According to plan the first British President of the Legislative Assembly was
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