GANDHI DENOUNCED

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1931, Page 6

GANDHI DENOUNCED

ACID COMMENT AT HOME. “SELF RULE DISASTROUS.” (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a m) LONDON, November 28. “Giving self administration to India would entail the same carnage as turning all the animals in the Zoo into one large cage,” writes Lord Rothermere in a vigorous article entitled “The Collapse of the Gandhi Ramp,” appealing in a hundred prominent newspapers in America, and many others in the Dominions and in Europe. The article adds: “It* is the mostimpudent bluff ever attempted. Britain has broken down, in the Round Table Conference, and British Ministers, j with a mutually antagonistic throng of , so-called representatives of various Indian races, have been trying to reconcile the irreconcilable, to achieve the unachievable. “They have failed to produce a selfgovernment constitution, because India isn’t a nation, but largely divided by fierce hatreds and hostilities lasting for a thousand years.” “Peace, security, justice, education, and civilised government are boons which Britain alone has conferred on India but they would vanish immediately her authority is withdrawn. Gandhi’s agitation has already been responsible for more bloodshed than in sixty years, between, the Mutiny and the Great War. Nevertheless British sentimentalists in high places, like Lord Irwin and Sir Wedgewood Benn, have done incalculable harm by parleying with rebellion.” “Gandhi, by craft and false charges, has succeeded in deluding sentimentalists throughout the world. The British public at last realises the folly of tolerating longer this open rebel’s dangerous activities, and the chattering babies of a few weak-kneed British politicians.” ‘‘He returns to India, a vain visionary, with the gift of'showmanship, a.s a discredited charlatan.”