Smuts on India.

“Although the Conference failed to find an agreement on many fundamental questions and a great many details, it has played a very useful part.” Thus said the Secretary for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, in defending the India Round Table Conference from Mr. Churchill. British newspaper attacks on Mr. Gandhi are now renewed, and he is accused of showmanship. But just such comment, with ridicule, was poured on his Indian march to the saltfields. Ridicule did not prevent his subsequent loin-cloth parade in Europe and London, nor will ridicule kill him now. So big a man as General Smuts does not dismiss Gandhi and the loincloth as showmanship. He “believes in the sincerity of Mr. Gandhi…. Britain must go pretty far to satisfy India, and the sooner the better.”