Loudly, as the Indian Round Table Conference adjourned in London last week, a British band blared "God Save the King!''
In His Majesty's name, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald had just said to the departing Indian delegates in effect this:
Go home and prepare for another conference in India. This will draft the new Indian constitution which we have only sketched in outline here.
Go home and continue your partially successful efforts to iron out the disagreement between your Mohammedan minority of 70,000,000 and your Hindu majority of 218,000,000 as to their proportional representation...
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