Indian Liberal Leader in Pessimistic Mood now Our OWN Contesronoent Calcutta, Aug. 8, Sir Tei Bahadur Sapra is im pessimistic mood, He distrusts the Government of India, the Sision Commission, and "its principal authors in England," by whom he apparently means' the British Parliament, His pessimism covers, the whole field of Indian polities and political outlook; he is not happy about the advent of a Lobo Government in Great Britain, A pessimist is a bad leader for party, and it is unfortunate for the Liberals and Moderates that Sit Te} Bahadur Sapru should be at if he has nothing more to say to them than that Simla and Whitehall had during the past few years pursued a policy "calewlated to lose their friends, and they have not only an utter Inck of imagination "in regard to Constitutional matters but a total lack of sponsiveness to advice from friendly quarters." The "extrem= ists" in the Government of India, Tei Bahadur went on to explain, made no distinction between one set of politicians and another, regarding even the most moderate advocates of Dominion status as impracticable faddists or og enc= mies. And so on and so forth, Many Reasons for Optimism The majority of Europeans in this country do not for one moment: believe that Sir Toj Bahadur Sapra's views represent the bulk Liberal and Bfoderate opinion, at the present time, If they did, Indix might rightly despair of her Mow rate leaders, They are the people on whom the hopes of the country. are fixed, 'To their hands must be committed in ever-increasing mea-Jsure the responsibility of administ—> ering the government. But the majority of the Moderates are, unlike Sir Tei Bahadur Sapru,' far from pessimism. 'They have not. lost their faith in the Government: of India, in the Simon Commission, in the British Parliament, in every body and in everything; they have recently received important as= surances and they are' looking to the future more hopefully than they ce the was announced, There are many reasons for optimism by the Moderates. The Jeaders of the Liberal Party were bitterly disappointed when the tion of the Simon Commission was mide known. They took part in the boycott of that. bot But it hes since been clearly st by Sir-John Simon that they given an opportunity of making:
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