The Third Round Table The appointment of the Indian delegates
to the new and restricted Round Table Conference, with the intima- tion that the conference will assemble about the middle of November with the idea of finishing its work by Christmas, marks a further stage in India's measured Progress towards self-government. On the basis of any agreements the new conference/nay reach, the Government will frame its proposals and lay them before a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament, and in the light of that body's recommendations legislation establishing the new regime will be introduced, at a date which can hardly be earlier than the middle of next year. The Indian delegates chosen—among them Mr. Kelkar, President of the Hindu Mahasabha, Mr. Jayakar and Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, the Liberal leaders, and Dr. Ambedkar, representing the Depressed Classes—are representative, though the omission of Mr. Srinivasa Sastri's name is conspicuous, and it would be well to know whether he is really precluded from coming to London by the state of his health, a suggestion on which some doubt has been cast. The British delegates have not yet been announced, and it still remains uncertain whether they will represent the Government only, or all parties. In any case, it will be of immense advantage to have Lord Irwin at the conference table for the first time.
