South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-10
midas FUTURE IS
AT STAKE, NATIVE
DELEGATE ASSERTS
Means Of Averting Calamity
in India are Slight, Leader
in United States Says.
BY the RT. HON. Y. :. SRINIVASI
SASTRI
CHAPTER V.
Indian delegate 20 the Washington
Conference

Indian delegate 20 the Washington
Conference)
Written for the United Press)
The situation in India continues TO
be one Of great anxiety There has
been a dearth OF news and It is dim
cult TO say what IS going on under
the surface
Apparently Mr. Gandhrs discrim-
ination between individual disobedi-
ence which ne has now recommend
ed and collective disobedience.
which he has postponed. is finely
drawn The one can easily pass into
the other Mobs here and there will
collect for the rescue Of persons ar
rested COR crime and we know the
result
. II is widely whispered that the
government OF India is about 10 take
strong measures in addition 10 their
arrest Of Gandhi. but even if they
do not. the state OF feeling within
the camp OF the on-co-operators
seems TO be such as 10 cause appre-
hension.
There is a truculent section in Mr.
Gandhrs following whom ne has
twice succeeded in silencing But
the symptoms are no longer favor
able and il may be expected that
they will at the next attempt throw
him overheard and start civil dis
obedience, active resistance and
other methods not characterized by
non-violence.
Expect Crisis Soon.
Anyway the next few months or
even weeks may witness In India
events Of sinister import II Is sad
to have TO say so. and sadder still
that no means of averting the cal
amity seem visible at the moment.
OF course Gandhrs following will
say why should not the government
yieN 70 the wishes OF the people ,
Apart from all other weighty con-
siderations. compliance with the
peoples demands involves such &C
ton which is not within the compe-
tence Of the government Of India.
To take only one instance, the con-
ferment of full dominion status.
which IS perhaps the greatest of the
items in the n-co-operators pro-
gramme is not possible without al
teration by Parliament Of the Gov
eminent OF India Act of 1919 To
enlarge the powers of the legisla-
lures in the various provinces. 20
transfer all functions of government
10 the peoples representatives
would be to go great way towards
satisfying all parties in the country.
But what chance is there Of Parlia-
ment revising the act at the present
juncture?
Adopt IreIand's Policy.
The average English politician IS
nervous and uneasy. feeling that ne
has been driven hard as regards Ire
land and Egypt. and is therefore dis
posed 20 show extra firmness and
assume a defnant attitude when
midas claims are pressed upon him
by more or less similar methods.
Besides. the present state. brought
bout in part by the non-co-opera
tive movement, and in part by the
ill-feeling aroused by the boycott OF
the Prince Of Wales. has also hard
ened the mind OF the average Brit
Usher. and no government, not even
a stronger coalition than we have ar
present. would venture 70 propose a
measure FOR the greater liberaliza-
ton Of the government IN India.
That being out Of the question, we
must wait for constructive measures
OF ameliOration till the trouble IN
India has subsidized. How long this
will take II is extremely difficult "a
forecast.