Perhaps Mr. Montagu would say in his own defence that
he was merely using the old device of making up a man of straw and then knocking it over ; but if that is so, we will tell him that there are plenty of people in this country who are not going to let themselves be misled in this way, and if this misrepresentation
continues they will bring the facts, and the whole facts, about his Indian administration home to the people of this country. We do not in the leaet despair of making the majority of our countrymen see through Mr. Ationtagu's sophistries and his monstrous implied - accnsation that those who do not agree with him in his defeatist policy are bloodthirsty oppressors. Our acts in India have not been like the acts of the old autocratic. Government in Russia, and Mr. Montagu must, not be allowed to adopt towards ,the British people, who are proud of the way. they have curried out, and are carrying out, their trust- in India, langnage- of the kind that comes from Lenin and Trotsky and their colleagues, hurling curses from their Moscow bar while they are guarded by Chinese mercenaries lest they incur the vengeance of their proletarian slaves.
