The other phrase on which opinion has fastened both here
and in India was the clear assurance that " such an agreement at which the Conference is able to arrive will form the basis of proposals which H.M. Government will later submit to Parliament." We have written elsewhere of the pother which mischief-makers over here are making at the idea that Labour with a minority of voting strength in the country should alone constitute the British delega- tion to the Conference. Yet British representation by His Majesty's Government has been the unquestioned basis of the Conference policy as recommended to, the Viceroy by Sir John Simon himself. The claim now made by certain Conservatives and Liberals to anticipate Parliament's business of free criticism is preposterous. An agreed proposal for a new Indian constitution (we show elsewhere why we see no objection at all to the label of Dominion status) has to be threshed out by representa- tives of all sections of British India and of the native States face to face with representatives of H.M. Govern- Ment, and then the result will lie placed before Parliament in ordinary. constitutional manner,..
