India The Round Table Conference has inevitably lost, during the
election campaign, much of the attention that it deserves. The Federal Structure Committee has been labouring at finance, and has begun to discuss a Federal Court. Sir Geoffrey Corbett's memorandum, issued last week, on the readjustment of the boundaries. of the Punjab, is most important, especially after the earlier, and not quite reconcilable statement issued by Sirdar Ujjal Singh on behalf of the Sikhs, who ask that the two overwhelmingly Moslems divisions should no longer be included in the Punjab. Sir Geoffrey points out the irreconcilable aims of Moslems, Hindus (who demand joint electorates) and Sikhs. He finds no solution • for the Punjab as at present bounded. If he and the Sikhs could agree on a rearrangement, a great advance might be made for the Punjab. There has been no hopeful move in the Communal question. Mr. Gandhi,. who now says that, as an agent only of Congress he must refer any agreement back to India, i.e., to the. open extremists of the Congress Party, has made some provisional con:. cessions to the Moslems, but tried to divide them from the other, smaller, minorities. So far the Moslems have made no sign that they will be seduced by these con- cessions from their loyalty to those who have worked and striven with them. •
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