Mr. Lloyd George on India The article which Mr. Lloyd
George contributed to the Daily Mail of Monday entitled " Jerry-Building for a Crash in India" may have been in Lord Grey's mind when he spoke on Tuesday. The article would be hard to beat for mischief. It is astonishing that one who has borne the great burdens of a Prime Minister, and who knows how easily unconsidered words may be used against Great Britain in other lands, should have been guilty of this irresponsibility. As often happens in a thoroughly unwise article on a complicated subject, there are many statements which it is impossible verbally and in detail to dispute. The Government may have made a mistake in seeming to prejudice the work of the Simon Commission; the Viceroy may have made a mistake in insisting on introducing the term " Dominion Status "—though personally we do not think so. But it remains unforgivable that Mr. Lloyd George should discuss these mistakes (as he believes them to be) in a temper which flings as a present to the Indian extremists precisely the weapons which they are looking for in their attempt to stir up enmity against Great Britain.
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