3 JUNE 1938, Page 8

On whatever else there may be disagreement, this at least

is dear : up to the present, and so far as it has been brought into operation, the new Constitution is successful. ' The sombre prophecies of incompetence, disorder and disaster, with which Mr. Winston Churchill and the group of opponents of the Government of India Bill, filled die columns of the Parliamentary Debates, have been disproved by the event. The policy of Lord Baldwin and the parties that supported him has—so far—been vindicated to the full.