News of the Week
riAllE Government have been very wise in acting - betimes in regard to India. If they had left the appointment of the Statutory Commission till the latest possible date in 1929 they would probably have found that internal rivalries in India had become greatly exacerbated, because the races and the parties would all the time have been• pegging out claims. Already the bitterness between Hindus and Moslems is intense, and the Viceroy is no doubt right in attributing this to the fact that both sides have the inquiries of the Com- mission in view. The main question . for. the Imperial Government to decide was whether the Commission should include Indian members. Having decided, rightly as we hold, to make the Corriniission a purely Parlia- mentary one, they had then to decide upon the character of the personnel. * *
