The Indian Review. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest August 1918

The claim advanced in the Report that the real guardians of the masses of India are the bureaucracy and not the natural leaders of the people is responsible for not a little of thee unfavourable criticism to which the Report has been subjected. [...] The above agreement Still evades the question of inequality of status iii other matters the difficulty of obtaining licenses throughout South Africa the prohibition to hold landed property in the Transvaal and the Free State an/ virtual prohibition.within the Union itself of the entry of Indians into the Free States the prohbition of Indian children to enter the ordinary Government schools d [...] COUNCIL OF STATE We think the legislative structure which the Secretary of State and the Viceroy have proposed for the reconstruction of the machinery of the Government of India has been unwisely complcated by the annex of a second Chamber the introduction of which into the Constitution of India is highly undesirable. [...] As a concession we might agree that in the Provinces a fixed sum calculated on the average expepditure of five years before the War on police law and justice should be at the disposal of the Executive and outside the control of the Legislature for the life time of the first Legislative council and that these should be reserved too the Executive. [...] The procedure laid down in the scheme reduces the Assembly as a whole and the representa'sives of the people and the Council of State to the postion of irresponsible critics as complained in regard to the Morley-Minto Sefornis.