LORD SANKEY'S PLEA

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 13

LORD SANKEY'S PLEA

FUTURE OF, INDIA :NO LONGER IN MELTING POT i ■ — BRITAIN'S TRUE POLICY; (British Official Wireless.) (Received 19th March, 11 a.m.)] RUGBY, 18th March. "Put up the sword," said the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sankey, in an impassioned plea to the House of Lords for a policy of magnanimity 'in In« dia. "Appeal to force is the bank-. - ruptcy of statecraft. The future of India is no longer in the melting pot. The metal of its new constitution is . being hammered out on the anvil of i ' public opinion. It is in the nature ; of things that sparks should fly, but . sparks, fly forgotten—the true metal remains; ' - \ "We never went to India to con* quer. We went there to trade. The inherited genius of our race and some fostering star have given, us an Empire, but it is an Empire which ' ■ we hold in trust for many creeds and nations whose classes and communities are entitled to our protection. Rightly or wrongly, we hava :, educated Indians in Western ideals, introduced them to Western institutions and admitted them to our coun- • cils. The language of their Legislative Assembly and of the Congress itself is our mother tongue. . Time , after time we have made them pro- i raises! ,It is too late to. go back. We must go forward. It is our traditional policy and has been the secret of our success."