Here we find- a good deal agrement, namely, "that however' desirable it may be to be liberal to, India's political aspirations, nothing must be done that will lead anarchy. It has to be noted that India speaks not with one voice but with many, that while Brahmins. and Hindus clamour for Dominion status, Outeastes and Mussulmans declare that nothing on earth will persuade them to accept a Brahmin tyranny.
Parliament itself, which wishes to }ifeliorate the position of" 300 million Indians, has an uncomfortable suspicion that by acceding to placed before the readers of the "North-China Daily News" in its issue of October 12.
That such a conflict of opinion now rages in India can be settled "December 31 is manifestly impossible and the threat to resort, to extreme measures of Civil Disobedience" is the best possible lustration of the unbalanced mentality, the irreGoneilability, and the itrésponsibility of those who. are as India's leaders. Were it nob for the British. Government, India would long ago have passed into the situation of China—but with this difference, that China cannot find a solution whereas in India there are more lambs than Hons and a decision would most speedily ensue if Political India were left to lord it over its fie and war-like neighbours.. Nothing short of college and university' training for two full centuries will reduce the Sikhs, Pathans, and] Gurkhas to an effeteness that shall render them fit and safe political partners with Madrasis and Ben Worse Even than China To Lord Birkenhead (and he should know) the situation seems] even worse. "Everybody who understands anything about India plainly
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