DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 6

DAY BY DAY.

The Maharajah of Patiala, the ruler nf the nremlp.r State in

A Dream and A Delusion.

oi uie premier aitue iu the Punjab, in an outspoken manifesto, has i. condemned the Round Table scheme of govern-

inent for India. Not without good reason he denounces it as ‘‘an empty dream” and ‘‘a delusion pregnant with tiie greatest dangers to the very existence of the Indian States." For what he has dared to say lie is being violently attacked. But tt is indisputable that with the present policy of drift in Indian matters the situation is steadily growing more dangerous, comments an Knglish paper. Indian llnances are on the verge of a crisis owing to the 'flight from the rupee. Peace and order in the country are menaced, ns they never have beer, before for half a century, by the weakness which has been shown In dealing with disloyalty and brutal crime. As for the safeguards, without which the Bound Table scheme, would bring prompt -anarchy, Gandhi’s organ lias proclaimed that it is ‘‘unthinkable" that he will in advance finally accept “ asingie one of Ihem." The security of the Moslems and the rights of the Princes demand the clearest possible, guarantees, amt yet no progress i 3 being

made. We did not win India by this kind of feebleness. If we are losing our hold there it is because of the defeatist temper at Delhi and at home.