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 ing His Majesty means in India loyalty to bureaucracy first and to people afterwards. * * Let the authorities declare in what ways they are prepared to co-operate with us and we can assure them that, if they co-operate with us, we can, with them. Co-operation is mutual

Meanwhile, events of far greater import than party squabbles or recriminations were happening with shocking rapidity. The imposition of an unjust, inequitable, humiliating and crushing peace on Turkey, in defiance of repeated pledges, in defiance of the feeUngs of Indian Moslems set aflame the Islamic mind in this country. The recklessness with which the sacredness of pledges was disregarded produced the deepest impression on the mind of Mahatma Gandhi and his moral nature revolted against an order of things which rendered possible such brutal callousness. The Privy Council Judgment in the Am ri tsar case dealt " a severe blow to our constitutional rights, investing the Viceroy with almost autocratic power of ordinance-making." It showed how the judgments even of the highest tribunals are not unaffected by political considerations." The belated publication of the belated report of the belated Hunter Commission aggravated the situation by showing how the majority of the Commissioners considered cold-blooded murders to be mere " grave errors " and unfortunate " or " injudicious " acts. The Viceroy condoning the sins of the notorious Satrap of the Punjab, the Secretary of State applauding Lord Chelmsford, the House of Lords in love with General Dyer, — all this was too much even for the most