LORD BIRKENHEAD ON INDIA
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Birkenhead has taken a decidedly unusual course in announcing that he is prepared to defend Lord Lytton should the attack upon him made in the Press be repeated in the House of Lords. Why this public defiance of some silly attacks of the thunders ? Very much more to be commended is the announcement that if he be still Secretary of State for India when the Statutory Committee is appointed in 1929, he will see that it is composed of the ablest men available in the Empire. India would certainly feel fuller confidence in the Commission if there could be included in it two or three men drawn from high positions in the Self-governing Dominions P.S.—I note that the " Bengalee " refers to Lord Lytton on July 18th, 1926, as " a straight, well-meaning, liberal-minded gentleman ! "
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