Standstill in India
Sir George Schuster's book on India, discussed on a later page of this issue, comes at a moment when some construc- tive proposals are more urgently needed than eyer. Nothing could be more deplorable than the attitude adopted by the Moslem League, under the leadership of Mr. Jinnah, towards the three Moslem Provincial Prime Ministers who were invited —as Provincial Prime Ministers, not as Moslems—to -accept seats on the new Defence Council, and accepted the invitation. All have been called on by Mr. Jinnah to resign, and all subserviently complied, just as Congress Ministries in the vinces did when the Congress Working Committee so dire Clearly any sort of Parliamentary or democratic government out of the question 'when such powers are exercised by c pletely extra-Parliamentary bodies like the Congress and Moslem League. When those two bodies are irreconcila opposed to each other, as they are today, it is patent that purely Indian administration could be formed which Al) command general support. Mr. Amery was perfectly jus in asking any M.P. who had clear views as to how co could be given to an Indian Government able to contra by agreement among Indians themselves to give him the hen of them. Sir George Schuster puts forward very definite very sensible proposals, but they can come to nothing 'aril there can emerge a sufficient body of able and public-spin Indians putting India first and ready to co-operate with other Indian who will do the same, regardless of the veto sanction of any political caucus.
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