INDIA'S FUTURE
Although comparatively small in size —just a hundred pages —the Hon. J. M. Kcuworthy, M^V has packed into "India: A Warning" (Elkiri 'Mathews and Marrjpt,'.ii:td.),""ali the information that the'busy man ■ desires: to know about the course of events'in that troubled country. He writes with firsthand information, aud the large note of interrogation on the cover indicates that the future of India as ho sees it is obscure. The problem is urgent, ho says, because there is a real danger of grave 'disorders and even of civil war if attempts'af settlement fail, even only for tho time being. He recognises Britain's duty to India. "That evacuation would mean anarchy and bloodshed was admitted to me by, representatives of, the- younger school of Indian 'Left Wing' politicians. These younger men- and women say that they aro willing, to face the .suffering and confusion that would rcsult,;i_n the hope of ultimate success,- And. if an overwhelming majority fif. the Indian peoples and communities . were- of the same mind, we would probably, accede to their.wishes: But therp; is at. present, little-.sign of- any such -majority. In the meantime we have, a, duty to our fellow-countrymen in India, to the.lndian Christian; communities, to the great minorities, and to the teeming millions of poverty-stricken and illiterate cultivators and workers. And- our duty is to koep. the peace-and to assist India to WQYb,".'as?iapiclly;"but as steadily -as ' possible*' towards tho goal of orfleWiii -self-government:., within \ the British Cpmtnonweaitlv.of Nations." > . Dealing with;the'Eound Tablo Conference—this little .book, is thoroughly :up-tb-.da:tc-nth& author, writes: "Very imp;ortant.;:decisi.ons will have to bo taken'in fhe;near. future in'this country, but, above; all, in India.;' Tho waves'of .unrest' ih .that great sub-con-tinent are said to rise every, ten years. We'.niay bo able, .to weather tho latest stormy dea;but perhaps the next waveburst will.overwhelm ordered government in India, and-will result in years of chaos. If only the energies and patriotism of awakened Young India can bo canalised into democratic development this great experiment of voluntarily granting self-government to a huge Empire may-succeed and stand as a; memoriall of .'lmperialism- at its best. ...;.:.,■ . Thcro ; can :be no putting back of the clocks. . . .--■.■ The future
lies, with, the Youth.of India. They are creating one-fifth of the population of the world into one Nation, and one People. And who can sot' boundaries to the march of a People""
' The Chief Librarian of the Wellington Public Library reports 'books in demand a's follows:—General:' "Mrs. Eddy," by E. i\ Dakin; "Moscow Unmasked," by J. Douillet; "As We Were," by Edward F. Benson; "Personalities and Powers," by K. Hagberg; "A "Vagabond" irTßarbcjry," "by H. L. Foster; "Ten Thousand Miles in' Two Continents, '.'.by. Mrs. P. Ness; "The' Clash of World Forces'," by I}.: Mathews; "Supply and Demand," by A. and P. Stuaff. Fiction: "The Lilac Maid," by A. A. Thomson: "The Finger of . Fate," by "Sapper"; "Ambrose; Holt and Family," by Susan Glaspell; "Murder—and Ariadne," by I. Wray; "No-Traveller Return's, J' by Jane England; "The Factotum," ;by W-.'Tjo. Quexj "Look -to-the Lady,".by M. Allinghaiii. ' J
INDIA'S FUTURE
Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 19
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