News of the Week
The Round Table Conference THERE are hitches in the work of the Round Table Conference when we write on Thursday, but even the most disappointing delays should not be confused with failure. Whatever may happen steps have beett taken by the Conference which can never be retraced. An indestructible measure of progress has been registered. The outline of an All-India Constitution as drafted by Lord Sankey can be described briefly. There will be a Council of Indian Ministers forming the central Govern- ment, and they will depend for their authority upon a 1najority in the two Chambers of the Legislature. Their position, therefore', will be "responsible." The common fear is, of course, that this Executive will be so insecure that there will be no possibility of a continuous policy. Lord Sankey touched upon this subject and suggested that stability should be guaranteed by a provision that the Council should not resign unless a vote of no con fidence was passed by the majority of at least two-thirds of both the Chambers of the Legislature sitting together. * *
