Abstract

To those who have no intimate connection with the workings of the Cabinst Government it is not possible to know what all His Excellency has been doing to make Madras a free province, free within the Empire, I mean the British Empire as well as the Indian Empire. When the future historian who gets access not merely to those mysterious things known as Secretariat Confiden- tial files, but also to the private letters which His Excellency has been writing to the higher authorities, to write the history of the working of the Reforms, the nation and the country will know what a great debt of obligation and gratitude this country owes for what His Excellency has been doing for them. I know a bit of it but. Sir, the Cabinet regulations and etiquette do not permit me to disclose it. (Langhter). I hope however that I do not commit any breach of that etiquette if I tell this audience that His Excellency has not lost the slightest opportunity and has in fact been striving hard to find opportunities to do all that lies in his power to obtain freedom to the people of this country.

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