AMERICA AND INDIA
SIR,—" Janus" refers, in your issue of December i ith, to the need for competent British speakers to put the British case on India to American audiences. May I pass on a point recently made by a highly competent British speaker just returned from the United States? He suggests that there is a need for well-informed American speakers, who have been to India, to speak on the same subject. Americans naturally tend to over- simplify our imperial problems, and to regard British speakers, however sincere their intentions, as necessarily biassed. But if American speakers could be invited to visit India and study her at close quarters, they would be in a position to appreciate the complexity of the present situation. And in explaining it to the wider public they would carry greater weight with their fellow-countrymen than we, as supposedly
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