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* * * * The lesson of this should be

obvious. The police in India are subjected to a terrific strain, and the mere fact that there have been only eight fatal assaults in the last two years in spite of extremist propaganda speaks extremely well for their restraint as well as for the natural Indian disinclination for violence. The propaganda, however, must have increasingly bad effects, and unless the Conference can produce a final settlement in embryo the Indian element in the police must soon break under the intolerable strain. The need for grasping the supreme opportunity now offered is a matter of elementary common sense. Yet some people are still talking as though " the strong hand " were a possible solution of the Indian problem. * * * *

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