Foreign News: Baldwin, Churchill & Gandhi

There was but one "Indian Round Table Conference" and it was in London (TIME, Nov. 24 to Jan. 26). The recent parleys between Mr. Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin in India (TIME, March 2 et seg.) were not a "round table conference." Therefore some interpretation was necessary in London last week when the Conservative Party Committee on India an- nounced that Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin had decided as follows:

"The party cannot participate in any further round table sessions in India."

Strictly interpreted, this sentence is nonsense....

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