SIR WILLIAM MEYER AND THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT. tTO THE EDITOR
0? THE "SPECTATOR."1
Sia,—May I with your permission make a comment on " Sur- vivor's " letter (in your issue of December 9th) attacking the 'Government of India in general, and Sir William Meyer, the Finance Minister, in particular, for unwise parsimony? The writer says: " They [the Government of India] took up a semi- detached attitude. They would furnish what was asked for up to a 'modest limit." "Economy has obsessed the Indian Govern- ment, even when it was not their own money but Imperial funds Which-they were entrusted to expend. It was thus that the Meso- potamia and East African yeaulate were so starved as to be abortive." I have had unimpeachable information that the Government of India and -Sir William Meyer have never refused ,any money applied for by the Military Department for either of these operations. All such requisitions were complied with, and the funds were placed at the disposal of the Military Department. All such expenditure is debited to the Home Government, and not
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