MEMORABLE SERVICES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 9

MEMORABLE SERVICES

KING'S REPRESENTATIVE

TRIBUTES TO VICEROY

EVE OF HOMECOMING

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 4th May, 11 a.m.) .' RUGBY, 2nd May. In connection with to-day's great national welcome to Lord Irwin on his return home after a memorable period of office as the King's representative in India, "The Times," in a leading article, pays a high tribute to his work as Viceroy. It says that ho has laboured incessaiitly to break down the two great obstacles to peace and prosperity-in. India—violent dissensions among the Indians themselves and their common deep-seated \ suspicion of British good faith. By his otto force of character he has succeeded in winning the confidence of all reasonable elements in every quarter of that vast assemblage of communities, for his reputation stood as high at his departure with hia colleagues in the Administration, with the Princes and with Europeans, aa with the various loaders of British Indian politics. "No one—and least of all he himself—would suggest either that Indian feuds have been brought to an end in his time or that the wave of, antiBritish agitation has subsided just.because ho has compelled- Mr. Gandhi to recognise his sincerity. But at the least India knows how broad are the outlines of progress which is open to her, if she is capable of making it, and the immediate and absolute limitations upon self-government which her own interests no less than ours demand. Lord Irwin has not solved the Indian problem, but he- has pointed the way by which courage and faith and patience like his own will solve it in the end."