The. considerations which im~ mediately arise from the apparent success of the Akalt propagandists are not merely" provincial in their application. Propeganda can be met best of all. by counter-propaganda, and when the truth is on the aide of the counter-propaganlists the result should be. certain, The difficulty is that. the Govern: ment of the Punjab and all other Governments; including the Central Government, have. been. hampered by the new Constitution in carrying out effective publicity. "The in rained sympathy of many of the elected members of the Legislatures with the Congress exponents of Revolution has come to the a who, while carrying on a relentless anti-Government propagandists,
campaign against the "Government fand expending many lakhs of rupees collected by devious methods, have had the satisfaction of being able to deprive the Government of the Dower of using the very. weapons which they themselves unstintedly and "unserapulously employ. Would be interesting. to. estimate, were it possible, Now much money and how many lives would. have been saved had the "Government Possessed sufficient funds and fore sight in 1018 to counter' the. mise chievous anti-Rowlutt Act agitation in the Punjab or in 1921 to prevent the nammatory apeeten of the Malabar. As matters stand. now a lat at Kings" in
the Government, well-meaning. aod patient, attempts to sweep away a ver Qelnt. "The anja Government out! aasued a cement aot forielly denying a satements sau by the Patbandhak Commitee the middle of February, we te eect that the Administrator of Nabha had reduced the financial: resources of the dowager-Maharani since the withdrawal of the Maharaja from the State. 'The facts now affirmed fare that, on the eontraty, the lady's allowances have been' increased. That such a falsehood should circulate for nearly two months without contradiction, especially when contradiction ought to have been forthcoming in 24 hours, is, eloquent of the need for telligent and well-equipped publicity Committee under Ger. Birdwood to In the same journal we read the' following:—
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