THE RIGHT WAY IN INDIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 147, 9 July 1937, Page 4

THE RIGHT WAY IN INDIA.

" The ' essential step towards the solution of our mutual difficulties in India muSt therefore be the recognition of the spiritual values in our relationship. Is this ideal' of a great spiritual fulfllment in those relations a mere fantasy of dreamers? Are we to pass it by as being outside tbe range of a praetical body? Was it not Lord Cromer, an experienced British administrator, who wrote* that 1 the essential points of a sound Imperial policy admit of being embodied in this one statement, that .... our relations with the various races who are subjeets of the King of England should be founded on the granite rock of the Christian code ' ? In the midst of a world engulfed in a catastrophe of nationalism and racial antagonism, there can be no short cut to the realisation of this ideal. But it is enough if a section of responsible men and women of the two great countries persuade themselves to follow the way of faith. Tlie mission calls for new leadership, and it cannot be trusted to those who ignore the fundamental basis for working toward the harmonv of a synthesis." — Professor N. Gungulee, C.I.E., in his hook, "The Making of Federal India,"