INDIA: Viceroy v. Gandhi

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children, even if they are provocative. Withdraw from the Government all cooperation, individually and collectively. Fulfill the resolutions of the Executive Committee of the Indian National Congress, even if the hardships include injury or loss of life and property."

Determined to crush this spirit once and for all. the Viceroy at once proclaimed four new all-India ordinances:

1) Making even peaceful picketing a crime.

2) Empowering the Government to declare any association unlawful and mak-ing it unlawful to contribute to such an association's funds.

3) Empowering the Government to punish ''unlawful instigation" not only by arresting the instigators but by confiscating their property.

4) Empowering all the provincial Governments in India specifically to declare the Indian National Congress unlawful and proceed accordingly.

The ink of Lord Willingdon's signature to the stern ordinances was not dry for long before things began to happen. At Allahabad a procession of Nationalists was ordered by police to disperse. When they refused, police laid about them with their lathis. Back and forth the mob surged, crushing spectators in the narrow byways. Net result: two killed, one of them trampled to death; 18 Congress party leaders arrested; about 20 injured.

In London every paper except the Laborite Daily Herald (which advocates granting Indians their independence) upheld the right royal acts of Viceroy Lord Willingdon last week, particularly endorsed his arrest of Mahatma Gandhi though some editors argued that the Viceroy should have received "Gandhi" before ordering his arrest.

*Assent of George V to most British Parliamentary bills is still given in archaic Norman French "La Roy Ia Valt!"

*The Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all "Because we England, have asked his indulged flock in to pray last week "Because we have indulged in national arrogance, finding satisfaction in our power over others rather than in our ability to serve them, forgive our trespasses."