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...result of a report last night that a revolt has broken out in the state of Tonk, India, Professor E. A. Horne stated in a special interview to a CRIMSON reporter, that except for the fact that it showed the unrest which is prevalent throughout India it was of small consequence, since Tonk is a native state in whose internal affairs the British Government of India takes no hand. If the revolt gets beyond the control of the native authorities, however, the government will intervene. Nevertheless, the entire country is in a state in which a serious revolution may break...
Under this government India was filled with a growing unrest. When the war broke out and India, contrary to the expectation of Germany, remained loyal, when self-determination was held out to the Arab States, and when Egypt had a prospect of independence, the Indian began to demand that his system of government be radically changed. Recognizing the seriousness of the situation the British government sent Lord Montagu to India in 1918 to study the country and return a report to Parliament advising what course to pursue. In June, 1918, Lord Montagu presented his report, which ranks with Lord-Durham...
Coming, as it does, at this period of political unrest in the British Empire, the election acquires a far-reaching significance. The general restlessness among the various Dominions had reached a turning point; General Smuts' reelection has definitely swung the tide and has furnished an example of loyalty which will be widely imitated. General Smuts and South Africa were little known before 1914. They gained the admiration of the world during the was and they have now added even more to this feeling of respect...
...period of doubt, anxiety and unrest here, but of great prosperity when compared with Europe. We have abundant resources of clothing and shelter. Hunger and cold can only be the result of the foolish functioning of our own economic and political system. If four fifths of our children were starving, if our industrial reorganization were broken down, then we could complain. As it is, we only have grounds for despondency if we have not the impulse of charity to respond to this plea. But I know it is sufficient for Americans only to know of the existence of these children...
...Without question the biggest need in connection with industrial unrest is jobs,--steadier jobs, better jobs, jobs whose value and importance to other people and the world in general is better understood by the doers of them, jobs under officials who are more anxious to aid the full enjoyment of the satisfactions that the doers of those jobs and the renderers of those services feel themselves entitled to enjoy...