The Forum January 5 1924

The defence of British inteests and the safety of the piles of British money sunk in the soil of India promises to be the war-cry in the coming battle. [...] This ti.sillusionment which had ensued on the end of the war fought to end all wars and establish justice and fair ;day among nations almost killed men's faith in men and made the earth sick and the world 'weary of the hollow words of States and Empires In our own country the happenings in the Punjab and the injustice of the Turkish peace reacted with equal force and drovel men to question the [...] They lead to an examination of our forces and resources to the elimination of the needless and the useless and the accumulation of the necessary and the useful. [...] Belonging to the district of Sylhet which was tagged on to the Brahmputra Valley in 1874 to pay the way of the newly-formed "deficit" province of Assam the Rai Bahadur is a fairly good sample of the pblitclan of the older generation when success in law even in a small parochial sort of way led to the Council Chamber then on to a judgeship of the High Court. [...] People made England the workshop of the world the carrier of the world and the financier of the world and reduced the whole people of India without the exception of a. single soul to the position of the labour corps of Capitalistic Briliain.