The Calcutta Weekly Notes April 8 1946

IFeat in Delhi is of the torrid variety and we cannot grudge the members of the Mission who after all are our guests for the time being the relief which escape to the hills will bring. [...] The newspapers head-line from day to day iterviews of Our leaders with the Cabinet Mission and at the end of the pourparlers it seems everyone’s face is fairly wreathed with smil s. We prefer however to be-somewhat wary in r iiiferPretation of smiles At Simla last su nier there was no dearth of smiles and buoyant expectancy and yet in spite of the high hopes engendered everything ended [...] From authoritative Congress spokesmen the question has already been mooted that the main thing for the Mission to tell the country is the kind of power which is proposed to be tranferred to India and not merely to whom and in what sparticular constitutional forms the tranfer is to be made. [...] It is therefore significant that Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru has given out his view that in the consttution-making body " if on any particular issue there is a deadlock both parties must accept the decision of the British." The main point hoever is that if the British ' Government find themselves in the position of arbiters of India's political destiny on account of the insolubility of our po [...] Even in the present Greek Cabinet which has. conducted the elections at the behest of the British Foreign Office eleven out of thirty-five members have resigned last March on account of what they consider to be the irracticability of holding anything like free and fair elections under the shadow of bayonets wielded by people who wish to restore monarchy in Greece against the wishes of the vas