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that they are so. While I am glad to be reminded that is not a bad inference to make" (though I am at a loss to know wherefrom) "that other people besides myself possess truth- discerning faculties," I must ask "A member" to let me know whether questioning the truth of one statement without rhyme or reason and insinuating motive in terms such as "the truth is, having chosen a way, he wants to maintain it"—is or is not calling "him or his argument names." I should like to know if " A member" holds a brief from the Club to defend the "position" thereof. If so, I, as a member in common with other members, should ask him to produce his credentials for posing as the aggrieved or rather the compromised" in behalf of the Club.
I had an interview with Mr. Badrudin Tyabji of the Bombay Bar, now here, sometime ago. Being taken up with other matters, I could not refer to it before this. Mr. Badrudin had little to say about Hyderabad and its affairs not being able to devote, as he said, any attention to such studies." But he was anxious to express himself freely and clearly as regards the Congress question. He said that though he did not look with favour upon such extravagant demands as those embodied in the "Madras scheme" yet he was as great a sympathiser of the national movement to-day as he had been when presiding at the Madras meeting of the Congress. If he did not take part in the proceedings for some years, it was because the "Anjumani Islam" of Bombay, of which he was President, was against his doing so. And as he knew that he could do a lot of good to the Bombay Moslem community by being in touch with it and that the Congress could get on without him while the Islam" could not, he kept aloof though he was at heart a great sympathiser.
