On Tuesday the Under-Secretary for India spoke on the India
Office Vote and reviewed the. present conditions in India. It was a satisfactory and hopeful report that he had to give. Since the policy of wholesale resignations had been abandoned the Swaraj Party had been disintegrating, and the All-India Moslem League had not encouraged "non-co-operation.". The troublesome problem of the Sikh shrines . was practically settled. The emancipation of the slaves in the unadministered part of Burma had been successful. Trade was good and .the Budget again balanced. Lord Winterton did not minimize, however, the dangers of the hostility between Hindus and Moslems, and he emphasized the fact that the British troops and civilians alone prevented massacres. There was little criticism of his speech in the debate, which was marked by Colonel Josiah Wedgwood's generous appreciation of Lord Irwin.
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