3 DECEMBER 1927, Page 2

In the House of Lords on Thursday, November 24th, and

in the House of Commons on the following day, there were debates on the CoMmission for India. In both these debates there was such general agreement, and the assurances to India were so full and so earnest, that we are left wishing that such admirable justifications of the Commission could have been made public before the Lidians knew anything- about it. Unfortunately, everything went astray when there was a premature disclosure in India of the purely Parliamentary member- ship of the Commission. If the misguided indignation against • the Commission in India can now be abated, nothing could perform this benevolent function better • than what was said in the two Houses of Parliament.