§ MR. SEYMOUR KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India, with reference to paragraph 3 of the Despatch to the Government of India of 22nd June, East India (Civil Service Examinations), is the phrase that it is indispensable that an adequate number of the members of the Civil Service shall always be Europeans, and that no scheme would be admissible which does not fulfil that essential condition, intended to admit of a response by the Government of India that they refuse to carry out the Resolution of this House dated 2nd June last?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. G. RUSSELL, North Beds.)I hope the hon. Member will not think me discourteous when I say that with regard to the point to which he refers the Secretary of State cannot add anything to the language of the Despatch itself, which was the result of very careful consideration.