13 DECEMBER 1930, Page 2

* * * * The representatives of the Indian States,

anxious as they arc on principle to preserve the name of internal independence, and thus to .enter the Federation individually by separate conventions, will not make a deal with a British India still under " alien " rule. This common aspiration for a homogeneous India is so strong that it has carried the day in favour of a bi-cameral unitary system of Federation. The States would have representatives in both Chambers, -and defence, external relations, relations with Indian States and so forth would finally become Federal subjects. Even in the transitional period, when these matters would be the responsibility of the Viceroy, the Federal Legislature might have sonic say in them. • * * * *