India

A correspondent of The New Statesman, London independent weekly journal, summarized the political situation in India thus:

"Politics in India are entering upon a new phase. The failure of the noncooeperation movement has passed into history in spite of the feeble efforts of Mr. Ghandi's followers to keep it alive; but the causes of that movement are still operating, and to them can be attributed the latest developments of the Indian situation. Noncooeperation is dead, but Nationalism lives and is the stronger for having learnt the lessons of Mr. Ghandi's failure. The Nationalist movement. . . . is part of the great awakening of Asia which is destined one day to baffle and alarm a war-weakened Europe.

"What the Nationalist stands for is freedom--freedom to govern India with an Indian Government subject to an Indian Parliament, freedom to maintain a truly Indian army, officered and manned by Indians, and freedom for India to express herself as India and not as a semi-Anglicized Asiatic dependency. These aims are not incompatible with the existence of India within the British Commonwealth of nations, and, indeed, that ill-defined expression "Dominion Status" defines the present aims of the great bulk of Nationalists."

The declared policy of the British Parliament is to increase the "association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire." The British and Nationalist aims, therefore, differ only in method. The British policy is a progressive scheme of Indianization; the Nationalists want a revolutionary and not an evolutionary change.