MR. ROOSEVELT ON BRITISH RULE IN INDIA
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—May I venture to suggest that President Roosevelt's words of eulogy on the British rule in India should be placed on the walls of every school in the United Kingdom P They would certainly come in well on Empire Day ; for the just
and benet.cent rule of Britain in so many parts of the world is the highest glory of the Empire. And as this is an age of pictures, perhaps a portrait of President Roosevelt ought to appear, and one of Sir Henry Lawrence with the motto : " He notice of the Rev. W. H. Campbell, who has just died at Bordighera after twenty years' work in India as a missionary. He was a Socialist, and entertained Mr. Keir Hardie when he visited India. But he was far from sharing Mr. Keir Hardie's views as to the Government of India. He wrote to the Labour Leader in England to oppose these views. Among other things, he said:-
" I went to India expecting to find a great deal of misgovern- ment, and most unwilling to admit that any good could result from a bureaucratic system. Experience has forced me to the conclusion that there is no country in the world better governed than India, none in which the Administration does more for the masses of the people." .
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