Tord Irwin has gone to England India's "Chief Anpbassador" (to use' Sir Bhupendea Nath Mit words) to advise Government on the fullest Indian ce-operation building up the new structure, With: these assurances the vast majority of the people are. meantime content. They are suspending judgnsent until the full proposals of Yhe situation, and one which entire-confounds Sir Tei Bahadur Sapru's pessimism, is the readiness with which the country has accepted the postponement of the elections. They realize that it is futile to hold lections on an issue of which they are ignorant, When Pundit Motilal Nehru (the President of the Indian National Congress) and his frien under whose hypnotic influence Sir} ej Bahadur Sapru seems to have fallen, attempted to raise an agitation in the country against the extension of the life of the legislatures, efforts fell flat. The Congtess members in the provinces; showed clearly that they had no desire to boycott the Councils on that score, and they are presumably much more in touch with the real feeling of the people than either Sir Tei Bahadur Sapru or Pundit! Motilal Nehru, The Liberals desire—says the Times of India"—not only & share in framing the future constitution of India, but a definite assurance that Dominion status is India's goal, But it is not within the range of practical polities that a statement Announcing the grant of immediate Dominion status to India can be made, us the extremists demand, before the Simon Commission has The Folly of Impatience The placing of a time limit, a matter of a month or less. on an issue vitally affecting the future of India's millions, is fantastic. What is the alternative to Waiting quietly until the beginning of next year when the British Government's plans will be available. The "Times of India" replies very aptly, nothing more nor less than an attempt to mings civil disobedience, an sane policy which was tried' and failed in the past and which Mr. Gandhi, its creator, himself denounced. And what is to be the aim of mass civil disobedience? Presumably it will be Independence find the adoption of the Nehru Report as India's constitution. Apart from the question. whether the country wants independence, is the Nehru Report acceptable to the people of India as a whole? It not, and those who are misguided enough to insist that it is a anger to the country. The Nehru Report is a valuable document and notable attempt to solve India's constitutional problem, but it has failed in one important. issue—the communal issue. Until that issue 4s settled, it is useless to, expect anything except the most" serious consequences from any attempt to force the Nehru Report upon the Indian peoples.
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