The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Members
hurry up and down the corridors with the massive blue volumes of the Indian Joint Select Committee's Report under their arms, but so far none can boast that they have read it. But there is no reason to suppose that after they have done so Mr. Churchill will gain much accession of strength. Much depends, of course, on the attitude of the Party caucus at their meeting with Mr. Baldwin. If that meeting should go badly for the Government (and there is little ground at present for such an assumption) then there will be a formidable muster of dissentients. Otherwise, Mr. Churchill will be left to fight the India Bill with his group of forty or fifty irreconcilables, with whom he has fought in this Parliament not merely on the Indian issue but on every other question that seemed to offer a favourable opportunity for discrediting the National Government.
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