WHAT BRITAIN HAS TAUGHT INDIA

Chronicle (Levin), 16 August 1947, Page 5

WHAT BRITAIN HAS TAUGHT INDIA

Received Friduv, 7.0 p.m. LOXDOX, August ]o. 1 Britisii raio in hutia has icarhed il.fcerm but it cannot vet be vievved in per spertive, savs the Timcs. Xevcrt heles.s 8(11110 (dainis can be advanced and some tribulcs paid without i'ear tliat posten ity wili disputc tlioin. The foniiai unity of India ercated by tln- British Iias not snrvived their uithrlrawul )>ut the den siun of Ihe two Domiiiion.s to set up a joint def'ence rouncil under Ivtrl Mount batten'.s chairnianship is evidenee tuai, in' i'are of a I'omiirni dnnger, India would stiil lie oue. Xor is this the soie exteht of the sense of unity tliat wili j still jiersist in tln' partition. If the lii'w order surreeils and lloiirishes, | abiding unity w > 1 1 grow Ijcrause tlio in j flneure of the Britisii oxaniple has created in Indian niinds a new coneep- j tion of public servire. In the past, the j Timcs ])oints out, tlic Indian genius has i found its eharacterist i*- cxpression 111 j eontemplat ion remote from everyday j alfairs. Today India can coninnind tlio j

; services of !men and women wholl.v ro sponsive to the needs of the hour Earl Mountbatten vesterday praised the pulilic spirit of the Indians who -had striven to eheck the deplorable Lahore disorders and dwelt upon "the spii'it ot cooperation and compromise" which had inspired the Indian lcaders. These are British qualities, the Times adds, and political ideas and constitutiona! methods for reronciling liberty with order which are now guiding the (lelili erations of assemldes at Xew Delhi and Ivarachi, are of British origin, are m deed Britain 's special gifts to mankind That Indian niinds are now enriched by thcm is the result of the quiot, pcrsist ent work, maintained for generations of British liien and women who, unde: the Indian sun and at tlio sacrifiee o' (tomestic happiness) did thcir duty un fiinehingly before God and inan.