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...snowy-haired, upstanding Poughkeepsie clergyman. Publisher Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield a potent verbal cudgel in defense of the two Indians who sat in a stinking Bengal jail...
Since then a new British Government has come in, the Labor Cabinet headed by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "If Chatterjee and Das are guilty of sedition for publishing my book," cried Poughkeepsie's Sunderland last week, "then Ramsay MacDonald and other [Labor] members of the British Parliament are also guilty, for the most extremist and seditious passages in my book are quotations from these great and honored Englishmen...
Stupid officials in Bengal had taken the least efficient means of trying to hush up something likely to embarrass the new Prime Minister. It was one thing for plain citizen MacDonald to write for the British Laborite London Daily Herald two years ago certain words quoted by Dr. Sunderland. It is quite another thing to let such words go booming around India today, now that citizen MacDonald is also Prime Minister. The two-year old possibly "seditious"* words of Scot MacDonald are: "The moral justification that has always been made for the existence of our empire amongst subject peoples...
...effect Dr. Sunderland's book today amounts to asking: Well, why does not Prime Minister MacDonald free India...
India in Bondage. Jabez Thomas Sunderland is a Unitarian who spent a large part of his most vigorous years in India making more Unitarians. Laymen are often cautious in listening to a "missionary," but they will find the 552 pages of India in Bondage vital, comprehensive, militantly fair. Out of a mass of closely dovetailed facts and testimony rises Dr. Sunderland's major theme: the Indian is mentally and morally equal to the Englishman and therefore competent to emerge from tutelage and enjoy freedom on equal terms...