In India

Otto Rothfeld of the Indian Civil Service arrived in Manhattan allegedly to lecture before U. S. Universities on

Indian affairs. Speaking of India, he said:

"The conditions are much better at the present time and will be further improved by the Conservative Party coming into power. I expect that Sir George Lloyd [ex-Governor of Bombay] will be the next Viceroy when Lord Reading retires, which will be in April, 1925, if not before.

"The people of India generally do not wish to see the British Government relinquish its hold upon the country. They wish to have a little more to say in the local government, which is quite natural, but they have not the slightest desire to see their native Princes come into absolute power. There are, of course, the extremists in Bengal, who would stop at nothing short of murder, but they are in the minority.

"One of the strange things is to see how Gandhi has fallen from power. Now he is regarded in India as nothing more than a religious fanatic. That is because he has accomplished nothing.

"The business people in India are contented to go along as they are doing if they have a little more to say at the top in the conduct of home affairs. Conditions in the country are not really half as bad as the newspapers have tried to make them out to be. The trouble is that India has not been understood quite right politically in the last quarter of a century, but it is too late to talk of that now. All the people want is a bigger share in the home Government and they will get it.

"The English women who have gone out there have never understood the native side of the question and have caused a good deal of trouble for the officials of all ranks. There is a little unrest on the Northwest frontier as usual, but it was not very serious when I left India."