Lord Willingdon's Three Aims A speech delivered by Lord Willingdon
in Calcutta on Monday should not escape attention, for it put the three necessary aims of the Government in their right per- spective. The task of the Administration, said the Viceroy, was to insist on law and order, to push on with the constitutional reforms, and to develop the economic future of India. It is satisfactory to find stress laid on this last objective, with the added comment that its purpose was not merely to increase the purchasing power of the people, but to give youth greater opportunities for public service, for there is no greater factor of unrest than the annual output of students with no avenue of employment open to them. As to the acceleration of the reforms, that lies primarily in the hands of the Select Committee here. Mr. Jayakar, who has been sitting with the Committee, was justified in complaining, when he landed at Bombay on Tuesday, of the delay in carrying the reform proposals through.• Lord Willingdon's speech should serve to impress on both the Select • Committee and the Government the need for swifter movement. His insistence on the maintenance of law and order all parties here will endorse.
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