After the vote at the Conservative Council meeting on Tuesday
the activities of the opponents of the Indian Reform proposals matter relatively little, and the article by Lord Rothermere in Monday's Daily Mail may in the circumstances be regarded merely as a psychological curiosity. But I should have supposed that even Lord Rothermere would have hesitated before enunciating in its crudest and most naked form the doctrine that India must be denied self-government in order that a promising career in the Indian Civil Service may be kept open for young Englishmen. Yet there it is in all its nudity and crudity :
" If the Government's fatal plans for India go through, one of the greatest administrative openings hitherto available to our brilliant young men will be deliberately closed."
And that is the burden of the whole two columns. No doubt if we only reconquered, say, South Africa and held it down we could find a lot of careers for our brilliant young men there.
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