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marking time. This is on the whole encouraging, as members of the Congress who are not frantically de- nouncing Great Britain are more open to reason than they were. The conclusions of the Conference, as they well deserved to do, have evidently produced an effect in India. Last Sunday the Working Committee of the Congress, which met at Allahabad, published some resolutions, the object of which was to deprecate the spreading belief that civil disobedience had been " called off." The Alla- Jiabad correspondent of the Times says that the Committee " reiterated its decision that the movement was to continue until explicit instructions to the contrary were issued." It pointed out that the picketing of shops selling foreign cloth and drink and drugs was in itself no part of the movement and was an exercise of the •' ordinary right of the citizen." As the boycott of foreign cloth was " of vital necessity in the interests of the masses " it must be regarded as " a permanent feature of national activity." • * *
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