No man who concerns himself with the welfare of India
can have read without deep feeling the fresh appeal which Lord Irwin has made for the cessation of communal strife in India. One of his first acts as Viceroy was earnestly to invite the Hindus and Moslems to live together in peace. For a short time his words seemed to have some effect, but there has been a steady drift back to the old state of affairs, and even worse. In the Punjab lately Hindus who have enough education to know better have published disgusting attacks upon Mohammed. Many hundreds of lives are lost every year in the religious riots. On Monday, in making his new appeal Lord Irwin took an unusual and most courageous course. He specially summoned both Houses of the Indian Legislature in order to speak his mind. His address, in which he took his audience into his confidence, was a model of combined friendliness and dignity.
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