Nothing could come better in the way of an antidote to the propaganda of the Indian demagogues than the interview published to-day with the Maharajah of Patiala, There are two sentences in the interview to which special attention may be paid, the one in which he says that the time had come for the Princes to make it clear that their political relations are with the British Crown and that they and their people will never submit to be governed by British India; the other in which he points Sut that the proposals of the Nehru Report would lead to a "chaos of mobocracy." We see here what is felt in different ways throughout the country, the suspicion of the professional politician suspicion of what is behind Swaraj, non-cooperation and all the other doctrines which are set forth for the delectation of masses when Hindus and Mohammedans leave off striving against each other and talk as if 4 common political end were possible for them. Knowing it is not, and that enmity of each other ever transcend all other considera. tions, the people at large may wonder what would be the effect of giving the politicians full rein. The ruling Princes are under no delusion, upon that point, and not only are they convinced that the connection of Groat Britain with India is a necessity of the ease, but for them the rule of the Indian politician must never be applied,
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