India in the Commonwealth
On Monday Mr. Nehru, speaking in Ottawa, declared in emphatic terms that India would remain a member of the Commonwealth when, as will soon happen, she becomes a Republic. Four days earlier, at Flushing, Meadow, India had been elected to succeed Canada on the Security Council, thus taking over the seat always occupied, under the working agreement for the representation of broad regional groups, to the Commonwealth. India's continued membership of the Commonwealth, which it was not safe to forecast last April, after the historic meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers at which the inclusion of a Republic was declared possible, has thus been proclaimed at the Assembly of the United Nations and before both Houses of the Canadian Parliament. What is more, Mr. Nehru said that India's past co-operation would not cease or alter with her change of status. These are developments of the most heartening kind. Events arc coming to confirm the first impression, that last April's decision was a great act of statesmanship.
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