INDIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 13 June 1921, Page 8

INDIA

LORD READING'S MESSAGE

SARCASTIC CRITICISM BY GHANDI

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(Received June 12, 8.40 a.m ) _ ■ . DELHI, June 11. Referring to Lord Reading's Simla speech, Gandhi writes to the paper Young India, saying that it is clothed with an air of unreality. Lord Reading failed to recognise past failures, and therefore failed to deliver a. sincere message to expectant India. He waxes sarcastic about the infallibility of British rule and Lord JReading's statement that racial inequality must cease. Gandhi concludes: /'There is no more unreal proposition to the ear of the Indian than this, because experience belies it. Superiority of race is a passion, and has become almost a religion with the average Englishman, nor does he strive to conceal it from view. It obtrudes upon you in India as it does in the colonies, and is written in the statute book."