India and the League No great importance need be attached
to the report that a motion demanding India's resignation from the League of Nations is likely to be proposed and carried in the Legislative Assembly in the course of the session that is just beginning. India is about to enter on a new phase in her political evolution, and it has become by this time virtually certain that Federation will be a reality by the middle of 1938. If the new Senate and Assembly decided after full consideration that India should come out of the League, effect would have to be given to the decision, even though the Governor- General had technically the power to veto it. But there is no good reason why India should retire from the League, apart from unwillingness to pay the sub- scription, and many very good reasons why she should not. At Geneva, more than anywhere, her attainment of Dominion status is displayed before the world, she figures largely in the work of the International Labour Organisation, and in any case relationship to the League is a matter on which all the Dominions should take counsel together, and the counsel should result in common action. But there is no reason to suppose that a fully self-governing India will desire to raise the question at all, whether the Congress Party succeeds in carrying an anti-League motion in the moribund Legislative Assembly or not.
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