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 attitude and claimed to be wiser than the Congress. Even for such a simple thing as attending the meeting of the Committee, Mr. Tilak had to move heaven and earth. He received insults at every turn and ** was made to feel that he was a busy-body." Fortunately for him, the Delhi Congress took up the question of reorganizing the work in England. The Congress Deputation was specially charged with this work ; and until order was brought out of chaos, supplies were witheld. Still, Mr. Polak and his friends in the Committee went on with their even course ; and under one pretext or another, the work was postponed indefinitely. There were three persons among the Directors who could not tolerate these dilatory tactics of Mr. Polak. So, " Dr. Clark, Dr. Rutherford and Mr. Parekh, as Directors of the India asked the acting editor whether or not, he could conscientiously support the Congress policy." Mr. Polak at once declared that he was no longer responsible for the editorial control of the paper. After his resignation, Miss Normanton became editor and was guided in her work by Mr. N, C. Kelkar during the period he was in England.

In his task of re-organizing the Congress Committee Mr. Tilak was considerably helped by Dr. Clark and his followers, who, in spite of the opposition of several ex- Presidents of the Congress, adopted a new Constitution in August 1919. By this change in the Constitution, only persons in thorough agreement with the Congress policy could become the members of the British Congress Committee. The rest had to resign.

It will be thus seen that after nearly one year's persistent work, Mr. Tilak triumphed. When Mr. Tilak left