66 'Nulli into material fact with no postponement. vendemus, nulli negabimus, aut differemus, rectum aut justiciam," was the pledge that the English people extorted from the dilatory Angevin in 1215. Delay of justice, as Macaulay remarked centuries. later, is injustice. We must treat any Government that dallies with the question of Indian selfdetermination as our forefathers dealt with King John, for the equal claims of humanity and honour. "To none will we sell, to none deny, to none delay right or justice."—January 23, 1920. X THE REIGN OF TERROR * EVERY mail from India deepens the impression already engraved upon the British mind, abruptly shocked into an apprehension of the hideous. reality by the revelations first made public on December 13 last. Diverging for the moment from the gravity of the subject, a word may be said upon the propriety of comment upon the evidence given before the Hunter Commission. In the first place, that Commission is not a judicial body and has no power to inflict sentences. There is no jury in the case whose minds might be prejudiced or sense of justice warped by an unfair use of the Press. Comment is by no means precluded upon the facts which are not in question, such as the admissions made by military officers about their own conduct. Nor, for that matter, is the official and AngloIndian Press refraining from criticism, exhortation, praise, rebuke, and admonition, as seems good to it, samples of each of these being distributed at * This article was the leader of a special " Punjab Atrocity" number. The general idea of issuing such a number was an inspiration from Dr. Rutherford, all details being worked out by the editor. G |