Conservatives and India The strength of the minority at the
Conservative Conference last week, when a division was taken on a resolution regarding. India, has given great • satisfaction to Mr. Churchill, Lord Lloyd and their friends of the India Defence League. But the actual terms of the vote call for some examination. Mi. Churchill originally put on the paper a motion in accordance with his well- known views on India, but Mr. Oliver Simmonds, for Duddeston, had precedence with a resolution pro- posing that the Indian question should be discussed when the Select Committee had reported, and not till then. To that Lord Fitzalan moved an amendment affirming the right and duty of the Conference to discuss the Indian problem at any time. It was on this that the division took place, the amendment being lost by 419 to 314 and Mr. Simnionds' resolution then carried on a show of hands. The actual subject of the division was therefore the right of discussion, not the Indian problem itself at all, and there is no real warrant for the claim that a division on the Government's policy would have shown the same result,
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