VAIN VISIONARY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 December 1931, Page 5

VAIN VISIONARY

(Press Assn.—

gandhl denounced ; j LORD ROTHERMERE LAUNCHES SCATHING NEWSPAPER ATTAGK BRITISH WEAKNESS BLAMED

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

- • • ■ ' LONDON, Sunday. "Giving self-administratiori to India would entail the same Carnage as turhing all animals in the zOo into a large eage," writes Lord Rothmere in a vigorous article entitled, * "The Collapse of the Gandhi Ramp," which is appearing in 100 prominent newspapers ih America- and many others in the Dominions and Europe. ■The article adds: "The most impu'dent bluff "ever attempted on Britain has broken down the Round Table Conference. British Ministers, with a mutually antagbriistic throng of socalled- representatives of the various Indian races, have been trying to reeoncile the irreeoncilable — to achieve the unachieveable. "They - have failed to produce a self governing constitution because India is not a nation but is largely divided by fierce hatreds and hostilities lasting over thousands of years. Peace, security, justice, education and civilised government are boons that Britain alone has conferred on India. They would vanish immediately her authority was withdrawn. "Gandhi's agitation has already heen responsible. for more bloodshed than in the 60 years between the mutiny and the Great War. Nevertheless, British sentimentalists in high places like Lo'rd Irwin a'nd Captain Wedgwood Benn, Secretary for India in the Labour Government, have done ihcaleulable 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 among chattering babus and a few weakkneed British politicans. "He returns to India, a vain visionary with a gift of showmanship and as a discredited charlatan."