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E\\ff r, tio-i f/ ^l/K^jfc THE MODERN REVIEWi VOL. XXXV. WHOLE APRIL, 1924 No. 4 No. 208 m INDIA AND THE LABOUR GOVERNMEN ?? / By St. NIIIAL SINGH^ VI I in India and cliampioned, with evident sincerity, the Indian aspirations for self- OWARDS the end of 1923, when it be?I T came certain that British Labour government. Air, Lansbury has thought from the very would come into power, I wrote to beginning, that Non-Co-Operation was a number of Labour leaders with ?whom I wrong, that it would annoy the British who had been on terms of friendship for years, had the Indian cause at heart, and might even asking them to send me a message which alienate such British sympathy as India had : I might communicate to the Indian Two of them either did not receive and has neVer hesitated to give free but al press, ways courteous expression to those views. my letter or considered it expedient not to On the other hand he is so honest and coura acknowledge it. One of them frankly asked geous a believer in the right of every nation me to excuse him from making any state to determine its own form of existence thath ment at that critical time. Two of them although an uncompromising opponent ^q? responded to my request. tariffs and protection, and though fully cog II nisant of the fact that the raising of a The first message that 1 received was tariff vrall in India could not but adversely from Air. George Lansbury, whom I have affect the interests of British workers as had the privilege cf knowing for many well as of British capitalists, at least for a vears and whom 1 have always found^to be time, he has not hesitated to advocate the honest courageous, idealistic, and sympa- application of the right of self-determination '< thetic.^ He knows more about Indmn culture to India. It is, therefore, difficult not ?? to than perhaps anyone else in the'' ranks of cherish a feeling of high regard and even of British Labour, and has greater resp^ect for affection for ?G. L.,? as he is known to hun-?i ?' oLir civilisation than many a Western-educa- dreds of thousands?perhaps millions?of ted Indian. Through Abe columns of the, British workers. This, then, is the man who ? T)aily Berald, which he foundeci and edited wrote to me under .date- of December 31st, for several-years, and of which he has been warning me tha't though Lobour was about General Alftnager since Air. Hamilton ?? Fyfe, to come into office, and that whoever mighG the distinguished ' journalist, assumed the be in charge of the India Office would' ?be in editorship-of it, and through speeches' in full sympathy with all the best hopes and Parliament and from Labour platform?, he aspirations of Indian Nationalists,? yet Indi- has denounced executive high-handedness ans ?must not expect miracles because th^.
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