3 APRIL 1942, Page 4

Sir Stafford Cripps' Press Conferences in New Delhi have, by

all accounts, been an outstanding success. A verbatim transcript of his exchanges with British, Indian, American and other jour- nalists would be singularly entertaining. One sharp question and swift answer recorded by the Daily Express correspondent is a good sample. "Have you a political party backing you?" an Indian journalist asked. "I've got a party of one," the Lord Privy Seal whipped out, "which has the advantage of always voting the same way."

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