India The list of members nominated by the Prime Minister
to the Federal Structure Committee was published last Monday. The Indian membership comprises twenty- eight distinguished and representative names. The English representation has been completed by the addition of Mr. Pethick Lawrence, M.P., representing the Government, and of Lord Hailsham, representing the Conservatives. The members of the Federal Structure Committee will get to work as soon as possible after their arrival in London on September 5th ; the Minorities Committee will reassemble three weeks later. The publication of these names and dates has had an excellent psychological effect in India, where delay was breeding in many quarters misapprehensions as to its cause as well as impatience. We write before any criticisms of detail have been made known. It is unlikely that there will be any refusals of importance among the delegates, who have only just received official invitations. Even Mr. Gandhi seems on the verge of committing himself to a pilgrimage to London, and will probably seize the first presentable excuse for ceasing to emulate the Sphinx. * *
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