Mr. ChuiChill and India • Churchill's statement to his constituents
on the. cessation of his attacks on the Government over India (..noes him credit,, conscious though he may be that his change of tactics is likely to strengthen his position with his constituents. • It is sound doctrine (as Mr. Churchill , . showed by an apt quotation from the late Lord Salisbury)' Where Matters of fundamental principle are not concerned to light a Measure persistently to the. last division, but to acquiesce in the decision im of the ijority once the decision has been' finally taken. By his announcement Mr. Chur- (:11111 assures linnsolf a respectful bearing if he feels called on, as eVents develop, to suggest amendments in the working 'of an Act which he is no longer out to destroy. lie has no doubt rethembered that men like Lord Balfour and Sir AtiSten Chamberlain lived to confess frankly and. unreservedly the baselessness of the fears' they expressed when they were opposing (and. Mr. Churchill was advo- eating) the grant of self-government to South Africa.
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