Mar. 11.
Ir the absence of telegrams om the subject is any real indication of the state of affairs in Tndia, the present apparent lull allows us to review the sitnetion with special reference to recent devel-lopments. To do so as fully as the facts warrant would require lengthy resume of the story of the last few months, but an easier, and possibly more accurate method of assessing values in the present instance is to follow the inter-play of three important personages and the movement which one of them leads. Rough ly speaking, the policy of Mr. Montagu, Secretary of State for la, is violently opposed by Mr dhi. Lord Reading, the new Viceroy appointed, probably, to carry out the policy of Mr Montagu, is the unknown factor he may or may not do everything desired of him. He may very well turn out as did the prophet Balaam, for he is a strong enough man to follow his own line action should his investigations on the spot merit his so doing.
Sir Valentine Chirol, writing on a visit to India after thre years' absence, says: "Since Iw last in India things seem to have moved during that short period at a more break-neck speed on here than anywhere in Europe The coming into force of the Government of India Act, 1919 has conferred an important measure of self-government upon the Hindu, and. although the creation of what is, after all, a
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