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The article focuses on the freedom struggle of India. Despite the government censorship in India, the news that leaks through the cables, together with British journalistic comments, makes a very interesting picture to one who is familiar with the forces at work. The arrest of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi has not weakened but strengthened the power of the Indian Congress movement. That was natural, for not till he was imprisoned did the full force of his example and ideas begin to tell upon the hearts and minds of Indians.

This article focuses on the failure of the British policy in India. The British government has issued its proposals for constitutional change in India, and yet the British censorship lets so little news from India come through, many people are wondering what will be the final outcome of the struggle there. It is appropriate, therefore, to state the principal facts and reasons why they may be sure that India, as represented by the Indian National Congress, will win her political and economic freedom from Great Britain.

On June 27, 1934 according to the London Times of June 28, 1934 Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, announced in the House of Commons in reference to the Indian problem that the government was now convinced that "the settlement of the urgent and important questions that still remain to be decided will only be delayed by formal sessions of large bodies such as the Round Table Conference or of such committees as the Federal Structure Committee. Instead, for the sake of speed and the financial safeguards, the government proposed, he said, to have a joint select committee of both houses of Parliament consult informally in London with "a few individuals whose personal experience qualifies them to speak with authority."

The article focuses on Simon Commission's report on India. Volume I of the Report of the Simon Commission is a careful, detailed, and persuasive presentation of facts in the Indian situation. There are in it some distortions of emphasis amounting almost to omissions of pertinent facts, but these were probably intentional. The impression it made upon Great Britain and upon the U.S. was that India presents a problem of tremendous extent and complexity. Volume II, as a piece of constitutional planning, is remarkably skilful and thorough-indeed masterly. In its attitude and implications it is a monument of British firmness.

This article presents information on political and social conditions of India. The present upheaval in India is so vast and complex that it is very difficult to foresee the probable outcome. For Americans the difficulty is increased by the fragmentariness of all reports which they get. First of all, in regard to the Hindu-Muslim quarrels, so strongly stressed in all British discussions; it is to be remembered that these quarrels occur almost entirely in cities and but rarely in villages. As nearly 90 per cent of the Indian population lives in villages, city disputes are not so all-important as some reports would indicate.

The article focuses on the book "Gandhi Versus the Empire," by Haridas T. Muzumdar, and with a foreword by Will Durant. This is a book not only for people who are interested in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or in India but also for all who are troubled by the imminence, almost everywhere, of widespread violence and probable black reaction. For in it there are many of the most weighty and illuminating statements of the man who has done more than anyone else to show the power and practical effectiveness of non-violent moral struggle in settling great public questions.

Communists say that Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi has sold out to the British and to Indian capitalists. Many non-Communist friends of India are troubled and fearful for the future. The leading causes of such suspicions and fears are because Gandhi has agreed to go to a conference in London, England though formerly he refused, he has agreed to discuss safeguards reservations and federation with Indian states. Gandhi's willingness to go to London is explainable by changes in the British attitude since his refusal eighteen months ago. While it may seem dangerous to make Gandhi sole delegate of the Congress at the London conference, it is no more risky than the whole civil-disobedience movement, judged by ordinary standards.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comment on the Round Table Conference proposals which represent an advance in self-government for India; Discussion on workers' education; Information about the dinner to be held at the National Press club to launch the Victor L. Berger National Foundation.