Chandigarh, Tuesday, September 10, 1974 THE grant of a “full, free and absolute pardon” to Richard Nixon for “all offences against the United States” during his tenure will save the former President much mental anguish. His eleventh-hour resignation had already...
Lahore, Tuesday, September 9, 1924 THIS day 26 years ago, Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, the founder of this paper, was gathered to his fathers. This termination of his earthly career was, however, only the end of his physical life. The...
Lahore, Sunday, September 7, 1924 IT is now known that the recent Gandhi-Besant negotiations were not held merely for the purpose of an exchange of general views between the most powerful leader of the Congress and one of the most...
Lahore, Saturday, September 6, 1924 THE speech made by Mahatma Gandhi at a meeting of the Congress Committee at Mandvi, a telegraphic summary of which appeared in these columns yesterday, throws a flood of interesting light both upon the recent...
Lahore, Friday, September 5, 1924 IT is a matter for sincere congratulations that two of the most forceful personalities (Mahatma Gandhi and Annie Besant) in India are now agreed as to what we for our part have always regarded as...
Lahore, Thursday, September 4, 1924 THE Government has at last made up its mind to say a few words about Judge McCardie’s extraordinary summing up in the O’Dwyer-Nair case. And what words they are! In going through them, the first...
Lahore, Wednesday, September 3, 1924 NOW that in Bengal, as in the Central Provinces, the working of the reforms has been suspended by the fiat of official authority, it will not be out of place to make a few general...
Lahore, Tuesday, September 2, 1924 THE keynote of two out of the four speeches made by Sir Malcolm Hailey in reply to the address recently presented to him at Ambala is the passionate earnestness with which he threw himself into...
Lahore, Sunday, August 31, 1924 IF only the gods at Whitehall practised half of what they preached, the millions of human beings whom they have taken under their “care” would entrain sentiments quite different from what they now do about...
Lahore, Saturday, August 30, 1924 THE communique issued by the Government of Bengal on August 27, announcing the suspension of reforms in that province for the time being, raises several issues of vital importance to the country. The proceedings of...
Lahore, Friday, August 29, 1924 IT is the weakness of an irresponsible Government that where the question is one of pacifying the people or applying the healing balm to their lacerated heart, it is never prompt in its action. If...
Lahore, Thursday, August 28, 1924 THE Swarajists in the Bengal Legislative Council scored one of their greatest victories by their success in throwing out the demand for the ministers’ salaries at the Tuesday sitting of the Council in the face...
Lahore, Wednesday, August 27, 1924 IT is now more than a week since it was stated in a Calcutta telegram that Pandit Motilal Nehru had received an important communication from Mahatma Gandhi, making certain proposals for the settlement of differences...
Lahore, Tuesday, August 26, 1924 MADRAS has in one respect set an excellent example for the rest of India. The Legislative Council of the Province all but unanimously adopted a resolution at a recent meeting requesting the Local Government to...
Lahore, Sunday, August 24, 1924 THE most obvious feature of the evidence so far recorded by the Reforms Enquiry Committee is the all but complete unanimity of opinion among the witnesses both as to the need for immediate further advance...
Lahore, Saturday, August 23, 1924 THE great demonstration held in Calcutta on Tuesday to protest against Lord Lytton’s remarks about Indian women in a recent Dacca speech shows more clearly than anything else could have done the depth, intensity and...
Lahore, Friday, August 22, 1924 IN our correspondence columns will be found a communication from a reliable source about the deplorable state of affairs in some branches of the Railway administration. The letter reveals the length to which the policy...
Lahore, Thursday, August 21, 1924 AS an effective exposure of the ‘reformed’ regime, the highly interesting evidence given by CY Chintamani before the Reforms Enquiry Committee completes the process begun by the evidence of SM Chitnavis from the Central Provinces....
Lahore, Wednesday, August 20, 1924 IT was a fine speech which CR Das delivered as President of the Swaraj Party Conference which held its sittings in Calcutta on Saturday and Sunday. Appropriately enough, he began by repeating what he and...
Lahore, Tuesday, August 19, 1924 IT is impossible to think of a set of more retrograde or more perverse proposals than those contained in the memorandum which the central organisation of the European Association has submitted to the Reforms Enquiry...
Lahore, Sunday, August 17, 1924 GREAT importance attaches to the evidence of Lala Harkishan Lal before the Reforms Committee not only because of his recent official experience, but because of his eminent position as a public man of many years’...
Lahore, Friday, August 15, 1924 IN spite of the ingenious defence that has been set up by the Anglo-Indian Press, we are constrained to say that the Dacca speech of Lord Lytton, which has caused a feeling of profound indignation...
Lahore, Thursday, August 14, 1924 THE keynote of the evidence given by NK Kelkar, an ex-Minister from the Central Provinces, before the Reforms Committee is that like Mr Chitnavis he is entirely opposed to the continuance of dyarchy, even if...
Chandigarh, Wednesday, August 13, 1974 THE essence of a modern democratic government is full publicity to all business that is of public interest, but several Union Ministers seem to think otherwise. Thereby, they reflect their disbelief in the precept that...
Lahore, Tuesday, August 12, 1924 THE statement which Mahatma Gandhi has made on the subject of the South Indian floods both in the course of a press interview and of a letter addressed by him to K Nataranjan is at...
Lahore, Sunday, August 10, 1924 THE examination of the very first witness who appeared before the Reforms Enquiry Committee conclusively showed the utter impossibility of confining the enquiry within the four walls of “the structure, the policy and the purposes...
Lahore, Saturday, August 9, 1924 LORD Lytton has been freely complimented in a section of the Anglo-Indian Press for expressing himself in somewhat strong terms at a Police Parade recently held at Dacca on the subject of the relations between...
Lahore, Friday, August 8, 1924 WE have said that if ever a resolution was brought forward in the Provincial Council which had everything to be said for it and nothing to be said against it from the Indian point of...
Lahore, Thursday, August 7, 1924 THE debate which took place in the Punjab Legislative Council on Monday last over the resolution of Rana Feroz-ud-Din, urging the immediate and unconditional release of Maulana Zafar Ali, was chiefly notable only as affording...