This Assembly, Sir, has been entrusted with a very serious task, perhaps more onerous than any Constituent Assembly in the world has had to deal with. The number of differences that have to be settled are enormous; the population that has to be satisfied is enormous; and the problems that are before the Assembly are as difficult as any which any other Assembly has had before it. The British Government’s Statement has put things in a fairly clear way, but not quite as clearly as we would desire it. If we examine the British Government’s Statement, on which this Assembly’s programme is based, we will find few matters settled clearly.
