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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...
Under the truce arranged by Mr. Gandhi and Lord Irwin it is now legal for "local residents" and for them only to make salt in India for "home...
During the Irwin-Gandhi conversations, it was revealed last week, the Mahatma refused tea, drank hot lemonade containing a few grains of ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURED SALT. Thus the Viceroy became accessory to a crime. But under the truce signed last week any Indian may quarry salt or evaporate it from seawater for the use of himself or cattle, or even sell it within his village. Otherwise the salt trade remains a British prerogative...
Before the Congress meets St. Gandhi will tour Bombay Province advocating the truce. "I will strain every nerve," he said. If adopted the Gandhi-Irwin agreement will form the basis for further negotiations at a Second Round Table Conference with St. Gandhi present...
Great Viceroy. Obviously Lord Irwin has drawn St. Gandhi very close to acceptance of the so-called "Reserved Dominion Status" which Scot MacDonald has offered India in lieu of absolute freedom (TIME, Jan. 26). Said the Nationalist (i. e., Gandhite) Hindustan Times, amazingly last week, "If Lord Irwin has earned an immortal place in the history of India, it is not only for showing himself a strong Viceroy, although even there he has had few rivals among his predecessors, but it is also for having shown an outstanding capacity for statesmanship and for having saved India for the Empire...