The Central Committee is evidently to be treated with great
respect.. All evidence will be placed before it, and if the Committee desires, its Report will be laid before the King simultaneously with the Report of the Commission itself. The leaders of the boycott movement at once issued a manifesto declaring that Sir John Simon, in ignoring the wishes of the Assembly, was inviting the Viceroy to commit a " grave constitutional impropriety." They added that if the Viceroy consented there ought to be a dissolution and a General Election on the boycott issue. There is, of course, nothing whatever uncon- stitutional in what the Commission suggests. The proposal for a Central Committee was made in all sincerity as a means of procuring Indian opinion and attaching the utmost importance to it. So fair and promising a scheme cannot be allowed to lapse at the dictation of the boycotters.
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