A Reactionary Element in England

SIR Abbas Ali Baig, lately an Indian member in the Secretary of State’s Council, has on his return to Bombay, given expression to his views on political prospects, in the Times of India. Regarding the relationship between India and England, he says India’s participation in the war and her achievements have helped to create in England a feeling in favour of a full measure of autonomy being given to India. But he says, “there is an influential minority, especially in the House of Lords, which refuses to recognise that the days of aggressive domination of the Prussian type, based on racial lines, with power and privileges on one side and debasement and disabilities on the other, are past.”