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 gold area. To this they were perfectly morally entitled. There cannot be any question of a legal breach. There trade rivals would long ago have made short; work of any legal breach, Lastly supposing that; the law was adverse to the Indian claim my definition could nob be pleaded to bar any agitation for amendment! of the law, for the wbole of the settlement, if the nature of ifc was of a temporary character, and the Indians, as definitely stated in my letter of the 30th June, could nob be expected to rest) content until full civic rights had been conceded.' Tbe whole of the plea, therefore, of breach of faith JP, I venture to submit, an utterly dishonest and shameless piece of tactics* which oughta nob fco be allowed to in- terfere with a proper adjustment of the question.

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In response to the agitation in South Africa and in India, a Commission was appointed by the Union Govern- ment to investigate the trade and other questions which caused grave irritation to the Indians ; and Mr, Montagu, the Secretary of State for India announced in "November, 1919, the inclusion of sir Benjamin Robertson, Chief Com- missioner of the Central Provinces in the Commission to represent the Government of India, Interviewed by the Associated Prepp, Mr. Gandhi said on the subject of enquiry and the composition :

Id is a matter of very great regret that Mr. Montagu's message tj His Excellency the Viceroy so materially alters the position. I do, however, feel that any agitation insisting upon the appointment on the Commission of Indian representatives may damage our

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