Terrorism

WE  present the following extract from an article in the "New Statesmen" to those of our friends in the extremist Anglo-Indian Press who seem to imagine that everything is permissible in the name of law and order:--"The belief in terrorism is as old as human nature. Everyone who talks of the need for law and order, while ignoring the still greater need for justice, is a terrorist. The terrorist is a man in terror trying to strike terror in somebody else. Thus any one of us is liable to become a terrorist on occasions of panic and excitement. We do not deserve severe condemnation, however, until we make a deliberate practice and philosophy of our fears." Our contemporary is, of course, writing of the Germany, but he could not write differently, if he had writers in the extremist Anglo-Indian Press in view, instead of the Germans. These people have not only made a deliberate practice and philosophy of their fear, but are perpetually seeking to delude the bureaucracy into their own way of thinking and acting.