INDIA: If It Be War--

"If It Be War—"

Two little milch goats stood on a pier at Bombay, last week, bleating in a melancholy rain. Over the edge of the tossing Arabian Sea a boat was dropping out of sight, headed into the teeth of a monsoon. Aboard the boat were 27 discouraged Indian delegates bound for the Federal Structures Committee meeting—a preliminary to the second Round Table conference on Indian Affairs—to be held in distant London on Sept. 5. What dampened the spirits of the delegates more thoroughly than the dripping sky was the fact that...

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