izes me to declare it will most readily assent to setting up, after the conclusion of the war with the least possible delay, a representative body of principal elements in India's national life in order to devise a framework of a new constitution, and it will lend every aid in its power to hasten decisions on all relevant matters to the utmost degree. ces are concentrated else-A Becbwe of mili-
Tokyo, Aug. 9.
withdrawal of British troops a has been notified to the Government by the British "Meanwhile, it will welcome and promote in any way possible every sincere and practical step that may be taken by. Indians, themselves to reach a basis of friendly agreement, first upon the form which the postwar representative body should take, and methods by which it should arrive at conclusions, and secondly, upon the principles and outlines of the constitution itself."—Reuter.
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