* * * * The one criticism of the Government
which is common to all Parties is that though the Government have done the right thing they ought to have explained much more carefully in advance the technical reasons for making the Commission purely Parliamentary, and accompanied this explanation with a very elaborate pledge fully to accept Indian co-operation. The unauthorized publication of the names of the Commission of course upset thc Govern- ment's plans, but as a matter of fact the Government did take the precaution which they arc supposed to have neglected. The Prime Minister most carefully stated the reasons for his. policy and at the same time showed that a Commission could not hope to succeed without engaging Indian help and respecting Indian feelings at every stage of the inquiry. The Viceroy also made a well-considered statement to precisely the same effect. All that can justly be-said in criticism, then, is that though the Government in form did what was right they did not do it well enough—were not sufficiently elaborate or emphatic.
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