The Viceroy''s Reply

HIS Excellency the Viceroy has sent an excellent reply to the Premier's message. "It is the firm belief confidently held by the people of India, inspite of all passing difficulties, that the triumph of British ideals is vital to India's future. It is that belief which won us India's prompt and eager support in the dark days of 1914 and which has never since bound her to us as loyal partner in our varying fortunes and which will carry her with us to the end." We doubt if any patriotic Indian could have put India's position in regard to the war in the more admirably appropriate terms. It is true that everyone in India has from the first regarded this war as a war of freedom against autocracy. It is equally true that India has from the first firmly cherished the hope that the triumph of England in this war would mean an extension of the bounds of freedom all the world over, and within the British Empire itself.

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