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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 19

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EX-GOVERNOR CRITICAL

\ Sir Bampfyldc Fuller, one of the best1 * j known and ablest of British ex-Govern-I ors in India, in his volume of memoirs, "Some Personal Experiences," severely criticises the policy of gvai'tiug upon India a democratic system of government, says the "Daily Mail." In India, ho declares, "thero js at present very little more solidarity ol' interest than thcro is iv a Zoological Garden." Ho w.iyns the British public tliat the old feeling of respect and even affection towards the British authorities has entirely disappeared. This is, he thinks, because tho authority of the man on tiio spot hns been usurped by others. The officials have become puppets under the dictation of distant secretariats. His 'own resignation was the result of Lord Morley's manoeuvres, though Lord Morlcy professed that. Lord Miulo, tho then Viceroy, was responsible. "Many years later, says Sir Bampfyldc, after the death of both of them, T asked the officer Who was Lord JMiuto's private secretary, whether he could give me the facts. 'For six months before you left,' he said, 'Lord Morley had boea urging us in his weekly Jotters to get rid of you on some pretext or other.' Alas for 'honest John.1'