12 SEPTEMBER 1930, Page 1

The absence of the Congress Party from the Round Table

Conference, which now seems to be inevitable, will be greatly regretted here, for although the Congress Party is but one of the many groups, interests, and parties in India, no serious person disputes that it repre- ients what is most characteristic in the Indian movement. No picture of India is complete or even fair from which it is omitted. Only those who are afraid of facts want to omit it. Fortunately the opinions of the Congress are so well known that they will not be obscured at the Round Table Conference through the deplorable default

of the Congress itself. . •