12 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 3

There are, after all, plenty of other delegates whose utterance

is not so restricted, and Mr. Gandhi's self- imposed taciturnity need not preclude him from holding a watching brief. Lord Willingdon, whose negotiations with the Congress leaders were made the more arduous by ill-health, has gone to the plains to recover from a slight attack of dysentery, leaving behind him in session at Simla the Legislative Assembly, which has before it at least one'Bill as salutary as it is likely to prove provocative —a measure providing for the better control of the extremist Press.