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The proceedings of the Legislative Assembly were short but significant.

After a "gesture " of disapproval of the Simon Report, which led to a Government defeat that might have been avoided by better official tactics, the final resolution of a grant for the Indian delegation to the Round Table Conference was passed without a dis- senting voice. The debate showed that the Indian leaders had carefully read the Simon Report, so that their criticism is not to be condemned out of hand. It showed also that official public servants are not cut out for the supplementary part of Parliamentary speakers. Mr. Eric Studd, representing the Europeans of Calcutta, made an impressive maiden speech.

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