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Due regard will be paid to the need for keeping the Sovereign clear of political embarrassment but the opening in the Capital of the Empire of India House, which is the material sign of that Dominion Status in action is in itself an event demanding special notice. The transmission of the voice of the King Emperor across 6,000 miles of sea to the peoples of his Indian Empire should strike the imagination of India with peculiar vividness. Involved in the present agitation are a number of Indians who are more misguided than wilfully intransigent, more bewildered than perverse. To them as to the bulk of their fellow-countrymen the royal touch means cvel thing, The Sirkar has thei respect, their obedience until cumstances seem to make the Sirkar for the time being remote and unfriendly. But the Badshah stands apart and to his words there must be heed and reverence. In the wonderful Delhi Durbar of 1911, nothing was more impressive than the effect of the appearance of Their Majestiex the King-Emperor and his consort on the ramparts of the Fort}—the old Imperial Palace of Shah Jehan—and their rapturous greeting by the thousands as~ sembled below, After Their Majesties had' left and the ceremony was over, the multitude spontaneously remained to do puja (worship) to the emp: thrones—a sight which, unrehearsed and unexpected as it was, remained embedded in the memory of all who witnessed it.
To-day, for the King-Emperor Delhi is far away, to use the old Urdu proverb, but the magic of the wireless will enable him to overcome that physical limita. tion, He should be able next week to talk to Delhi and, so, to the breadth and length of India.
one would be so hopelessly optimistic as to suggest that this message through the air will at once dissipate the black clouds of suspicion and discord which enshroud the Government's desire to lead India to the counc chamber in London. Yet it is possible to hope that the influence of the King-Emperor's voice may bring to the centre of political controversy a spirit of reason and goodwill. No-effort has been spared, whether by Simla or by Whitehall, to show, that, in spite of the tragic happenings of the last few months, the policy of taking India into confidence and of assisting her to be tie rational arbiter of her own destinies still stands: India House, where under an Indian High Commissioner, India's functions as a Dominion are being discharged and will be discharged in greatly Jinereased measure, is a glowing symbol of this good faith. The King-Emperor appropriately will set the seal on its symbolism by his own presence and speech. The best of India—a richly endowed best, in culture, chivalry and" courtesy—wiil surely respond, Coxonen Lindbergh made only brief stop at Colon: which was grammatically correct-—Springfield Republican.
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