26 JUNE 1909, Page 18

In the course of his speech the Aga Khan declared

that, speaking with a full sense of responsibility and after fully weighing his words, he unhesitatingly said that if in the final shaping of the plane of Government the pledges were not carried out to the full, in the spirit as well as in the letter, the reforms of which Lord Morley spoke so hopefully the other day would be doomed to failure. " It is impossible anywhere, and least of all in a country like India, satisfactorily to work a Constitutional scheme with one large and important section of the people disappointed and left without real representation, and another section exultant and triumphant because they have been permitted to attain their cherished object of a virtual monopoly of political influence."