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...Nowhere in the Report's 753 pages is there discussion of "Dominion status" for India: the paramount issue...
...Earlier in the week Mr. MacDonald, speak-insr at Guildhall, was heard to say that the Conference would be engaged in "broadening liberty'' to give India "dominion self-government" and this sensational news was cabled to India...
Later the Prime Minister's office reprimanded correspondents for their "error in audition," declared that what had sounded to them like "dominion self-government" were the words "freedom in self-government" actually uttered by Scot MacDonald. Fortunately the British censor could prevent the Indian press from printing this slip...
...spare no efforts and even take some risks," admits that "it would be a grave mistake to underestimate [the] force or depreciate [the] value" of St. Gandhi's movement, concludes, "[I] have endeavored to point the way to ... place upon the constitution the first definite impress of Dominion status...
Carefully examined and legalistically weighed, the Irwin Plan is as trustworthy a bulwark of British rule in India as the Simon Report, but it is much more palatable. India, which yearns to taste the apple of Dominion Status, is almost promised that she may presently feel "the first impress" of this apple...