The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The
Com- mittee stage of the India Bill, which will last all the spring and 'summer, started on Tuesday with a swing. In the first five minutes two amendments were accepted by the Government, without their movers having even to explain what they purported to do. But this *pace thd not last long. Sir-Robert Home followed with a speech of over half an hour, an interminable time for the COnimittee stage, and roved over-the whole field of Indian affairs. Mr. Churchill sat throughout the day, entrenched behind a whole library of blue books, crouch- ing in his lair on the corner seat below the gangway, ready to spring at the Secretary of State on the slightest sign of a false move. He did not get any real oppor- tunity, for Sir Samuel Hoare was firm and yet pleasantly persuasive in all his answers to the Diehard amendments.
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