13 FEBRUARY 1932, Page 16

THE DUTY OF A GOVERNMENT

[To the Editor of the SreersToss.] Sin,--ln several recent editorials on the Indian situation in your journal you have stated that " the first duty of a. Govern- ment is to govern." Will you excuse a friendly suggestion that, on the contrary, the first duty of a Government is to obtain the consent of those who are to be governed ?—I am,