News Of The Week.
W E have written elsewhere about the attitude assumed by Mr. Montagu in the Amritsar Debate on July 8th, and abnut what we deem must be the consequences of that attitude. Here......
But If Mr. Montagu's Abstract Proposition Is Sound, What Are
we to say of Mr. Montagu when, with a double dose of unction, he makes broad his phylacteries and says such things as, "We hold British life sacred, but we hold Indian life......
Perhaps Mr. Montagu Would Say In His Own Defence That
he was merely using the old device of making up a man of straw and then knocking it over ; but if that is so, we will tell him that there are plenty of people in this country......
What Makes The Position More Unjust, And This Especially...
to Mr. Montagu, is the fact that nothing was said by General Dyer's accusers about the local situation. One would imagine from Mr. Montagu's speech, and generally from the......
Suppose Instead General Dyer Had Said What Was In Fact
the truth : "When I went into the square at Amritsar with ninety soldiers under my command, only fifty of them having rifles, and found myself confronted by a mob of four......
That Is A Most Untrue, Unfair And Sophistical, Though We
admit extremely ingenious attempt to beg the question. This defence of the punishment of General Dyer is not based upon the facts or upon the policy advocated by any sane......
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