NEW DELHI: The wail of the so-called `Nationalist` Muslims, the passionate appeals of the Members of the Congress High Command and the highly Sanskiritised Hindi of most of the speakers were the most notable features of the seven-hour sitting of the A.I.C.C. on Saturday af ternoon [June 14], in the `Constitution` House.

Gandhi addressed the meeting for nearly 40 minutes and in all about 18 speakers took part in the first day`s debate on the resolution of the Congress Working Committee accepting H.M.G`s June 3 plan. The States who have or are intending to declare themselves as independent formed the main subject of attack... . Why should the suzerainty, when the British withdraw, not pass on to the Indian Union or the people? One of the speakers [went] to the length of saying that if the Congress just gave instructions to the people of such States, the Rulers and their independence would be nowhere. ...

Congress acceptance of H.M.G`s latest plan was already implied in the declared policy of the Congress that it `cannot think in terms of compelling the people in any territorial unit to remain in an Indian Union against their declared and established will,` said ... the Congress President... . Dawn Delhi