§ 4. Mr. COVEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will inform the House as to the considerations which influenced the Government of India in their appointment of Mr. Coat-man as Director of Public Information, and why an Indian was not appointed?
§ Earl WINTERTONI have received no special information, but Mr. Coatman is an officer of high academic distinction, having taken first-class honours at Oxford in the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also won the Beit prize for colonial history. I have no doubt that this weighed with the Government of India in considering him best qualified for the post.