19 JANUARY 1924, Page 9

* * * * How unjust have been the references

in the Paris Press to the attitude of the British Government towards Afghanistan is obvious to all who are conversant with the facts. .Unfortunately there are many enemies of this country, in the East, in the United States and elsewhere, who lend a ready ear to the propagandist and who seriously believe that the Government of India is seeking to undermine the independence of Afghanistan. The situation must be pretty bad when, as reported by the Speetator list week, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in his Albert Hall speech stated that it might be necessary to protest against " what is being done in Afghanistan."