THE FUTURE OF INDIA To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
. • SIR,—The article India—The Immediate Task," . in your issue of November 7th, contains some sound ideas, but may- I submit one or two criticisms ?
(1) Where is the need to restate the goal of British policy ?
(2) The promise to give responsible government is conditional.
(3) More haste, less speed. (4) The talk about a " transition period " is mere speculation about the future—which cannot be foreseen. (3) Fine words are no use and a spade is a spade, though some people would certainly call it a priceless instrument of culture handed down from the immemorial past ! A letter is no place for full statement, but the need for a sound and cautious policy has been stated by such eminent men as Sir Harcourt Butler, and even by Liberals like Lord The Waldrons, Beechwood Avenue, Weybridge, Surrey. •
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