INDIA: Prediction

Two members of TIME'S London Bureau joined last week in sending their editors the following prediction:

There will be a historic blowup in India after the elections end, perhaps in late March. Whether it will be anti-British as the extremists say, or whether it will be intramural as the Government says, is not pertinent now. Fleet Street's editors have been quietly alerted. The Nationalists are holding their fire and the British are afraid of aggravating a tense situation.

We hesitate to predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The...

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