Apri Optimists in the affairs India will no doubt find in the! speech made by Mr. C. R. Das in reply to Lord Birkenhead, reported at the beginning of the week, a happy change of heart among the Swarajists. Mr. Das said that freedom would never she reached through violence, and that he was most anxious to work against this particular evil. He stipulated, however. for the reation of a favourable atmosphere by the British Government, whereby the foundations of revolution would disappear, but "was unable to ce-operate with: the Government in its present policy of repression." All this coming from & man whose uttérances have virtually approved of violence in the past, is doubtless highly gratifying; but it is the questions to which the outside public would wish for a definite answer that have induced this altered frame of mind and actually how Mr. Das himself stands to-day in relation to the extremists of the Swaraj movement. To this might be added" the'
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