As opinions on the Parliamentary Commission for India gradually sort
themselves, a great deal more support is being given to the policy of the Government. It is seen that the balance of argument is strongly in favour of a purely Parliamentary Commission—since the final verdict rests with Parliament—provided that ample opportunities are given for consulting the wishes of Indians. The opportunities proposed could hardly be more extensive ; they reach all along the line. Even when the Parliamentary Commission has presented its • Report and a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parlia- ment is set up to consider that Report, Indians will still be able to send delegations and say all that they have to , - • say up to the last moment. There was a danger at first that the Commission would be made a party question in this" country, but the Liberal Party, after wavering, apparently recognizes that the worst service that could be done to India would be to tell India in effect that she is not being offered a square deal. That simply is not true. The worst possible .advice to Indians is that they should ,bOyeott the Commission. Apparently the Labour Party, like the Liberal Party, will not be obstructive, though it will rightly insist that no demand to be heard made by any section in India shall be disregarded.
