Item 3 - Copy of a telegram from Lord Reading to Edwin Montagu

(Official.) In the Legislative Assembly today Jamnadas Dwarkadas sought to move an adjournment in order to bring before the house the subject of tomorrow’s debate in the Commons on Joynson-Hicks’s motion, which he described as a vote of censure on the Secretary of State. He said that any attempt to pass such a vote on Montagu would be strongly opposed in India, where it is considered that Montagu has proved the greatest Secretary of State and has drawn England and India closer. He then drew attention to Churchill’s speech on Kenya and Montagu’s statement that he would support the view of the Government of India. Dwarkadas’s comments were supported by Sir D. P. Sarvadhicary and Dr Gour. The Home Member said that a communiqué should be sent to Montagu expressing the Assembly’s full confidence in him.

(Carbon copy.)