In the circumstances, he added, st was perhaps very fortunate that we were' going to have a report on the whole matter from the Joint Select Committee, which included men. ripe experience and well tried Judg~ ment. Those who could not claim to be specialists on Indian affairs would desire to be guided by. the Fecommendations of the Joint Select Committee. They would be report: ing in a few weeks, and he urged that people should not make up their minds before hearing what they had to say on the subject, ina speech near Portsmouth the' Attorney-General, Sir Thomas Inskip said that It they were going to. have a Federal government India they could not possibly divert responsibility at the centre from. ft. Te was impossible to have a Federal government and no power and no Fesponsibility. "Me did not claim that the government proposals were In: fallible, but ax to their general na ture as' ground upon which to work Me believed them to be the best that had been devised—Wireless through Reuter.
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