The production of an agricultural policy has delayed the recess
; but it is probable that in any case Parliament would have had to continue in session to clear up the Round Table Conference. Mr. Churchill and a few friends obtained some ephemeral support for their con- tention that the Government's Indian policy ought first to be declared to Parliament, but it was soon recognized that the Prime Minister was right in announcing that policy to the Conference first and seeking Parliamentary approval after. The debate, which is to take place this Wednesday and Thursday, will give Sir John Simon his first big chance to impress the new House of Commons, though he has already made one restrained but admirable little speech on the Manchurian question. He is under- stood to favour whole-heartedly the Government's decision to press ahead with the construction of a federated India rather than to return merely to the provincial autonomy which was the chief recommenda- tion of the Simon Report. Mr. Churchill and a few friends—significantly without the support of the India Committee—are to make a further attempt to return to the letter of the Government. of India Act of 1920. But .on the whole, in spite of local fogs and ,storms, the Parliamentary weather has not been Unfavourable. .
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