* * We have dealt elsewhere with the main features
of the Report of Lord Lee's Commission. Here we only want to say how strongly we desire that the Report should be accepted and brought into operation as it stands. It is a piece of statesmanship and not merely a detail of administration, and it must be dealt with on these lines. That objections, and per se very strong objections, can 'be made to parts of the Report we do not doubt, but these objections are too late. The problem which Lord Lee and his colleagues had before them was—given the dyarchy and the new conditions in India—to suggest a system which would secure the continuance of British aid in the higher branches of the Indian Civil Service. The problem was to find terms acceptable to the best type of British administrators. It is by their success or failure here that the work of the Commissioners is to be judged. In our opinion they have succeeded and deserve the nation's gratitude.
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