Foreign News: In India

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations')

As indicated (TIME, June 29), the Pandit Motilal Nehru was elected leader of the Swarajist (Home Rule) Party in the place of C. R. Das, dead.

Mahatma Gandhi, referring to a Dominion Home Rule Bill taken to India by the famed theosophist, Dr. Annie Besant, asseverated:

"Let Birkenhead give public assurance that the bill has a chance to be accepted if it is indorsed by Pandit Motilal Nehru and any other he may name and I will undertake to obtain their signatures."

This is proof that Gandhi is still cooperating with the...

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