News of the Week
Great Britain and India
rpHE more we read Lord Irwin's carefully phrased address -I- with which he opened the Legislative Assembly last week, the more we find to praise in it. Its reception has been on the whole more gratifying in India than here. The Times, in its leading article of July 10th, however, is an honourable exception, and the appreciation of that article by well-informed correspondents makes it abun- dantly clear that there are resources of good will and intelligent sympathy only waiting to be tapped. A letter in the Times of. Friday, July 11th, by Mr. Richard Law, recently 'returned from a visit to India, should be a lesson. to the faint-hearts in all parties here. After admitting that he had "in common, I suppose, with most British Conservatives," been alarmed by the tenor of Lord Irwin's pronouncement on October 31st, he 'says : " I found not a single responsible person (among Indians and among British people) to tell me that the Viceroy was ill-advised, and that together With a majority of my fellow- countrymen here (in England) I was in the right." That the Press both here and there is largely responsible for the miasma of bitterness and misunderstanding of recent months is now plain to those that have eyes to sec.
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