If these are the facts, Mr. Baldwin will have little
difficulty in reconciling the botched resolution of the India Committee with his pledges. He may be right or he may be wrong about an early continuation of the Round Table Conference in India, but he has a perfect right to his opinion. He is, indeed, on fairly solid ground, as the ultimate decision about India rests with Parliament ; and as delegates at the Round Table Conference have incessantly to refer to their Parties, a continuation of the Conference in London instead of in India would be more convenient. It will have been noted that the India Committee's resolution confines itself to con- demning a continuation of the work in India " as now foreshadowed by His Majesty's Government." That is to say, the reference is to an early continuation before details have been thought out. An obvious explanation of the resolution, therefore, is that the India Committee do not object to the work of the Round Table Conference going on, but object only to the Government's particular proposal. * * * *
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