THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The. proceedings day by day at the Round Table re
Confence are bringing into prominence the fact that agree- ment among the various factions and sections of which India's population is composed is not, at present, obtainable. Mr. Gandhi is beginning to realize this, and is anxious that the British Government should do something," and make some proposition, but Mr. MacDonald has most wisely told the , various committees that they must first agree among them- selves, For our Government to attempt to compel some, so called, settlement would satisfy none of the sections, and what- ever could safely be proposed would enable Mr. Gandhi to return to India and denounce it to Congress.
Mr. Gandhi seems calmly to contemplate the possibility of one community attacking another community, in which attacks millions of lives would be lost, and airily says that those who were left would still be Indians. Mr. MacDonald is on safe ground when he tells the Indian delegates that they must first agree among themselves, and that until they can do so England must and will keep the peace between the warring factions of India. To compel a settlement just now would be to make a desert and call it Peace—I am, Sir, &c.,
E. LOMAS OLIVER.
The Waterhouse, Bollington, Macclesfield,
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