News of the Week
The Indian Report THE first volume of the Indian Report commands the attention of the world. It is good to know that it is selling freely in this country. It is to be hoped that at last the ordinary elector will obtain a comprehensive understanding of what the Indian problem really is. Although we can be in no doubt that the first essential for the basis of a new policy for India is a scrupulously correct presentation of the facts, the admitted disadvan- tage of such a presentation is that many Indians regard it as a carefully designed catalogue of obstacles. We trust that the Government here will see the extreme im- portance of reiterating the fact, familiar enough to Englishmen, that 'Voluine .I of the Report is for - the information of the British Parliament and the British people. It does not imply_ that the extreme difference of the conditions in India from the conditions in other great countries of the Empire is a thing worthy of reprobation. In . these circumstances, as we have argued in a leading article, the course of least danger bOth-for Great Britain and for India is to make very sure of impressing upon the Indians the general determination in Great Britain to be trustful and generous.
