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| MB MONTAGE'S DEFENCE. FOREIGN CINEMA FILMS.

MENACE TO NATIONAL IDEALS.

THE INDIAN REFORM BILL

BY T, EABLE WRENY.]

of India),

(Secretary of the European Association

under

powerful agency in the education of the people in national ideals, and hat the inclusion of foreign central would exert an injurious effect, and render thera international

Ans, meeting of cinematograph sle exhibitors and those connected with und interested in the industry, was held at the Holborn Empire on July 15th, under Lord Curzon bas proved a somewhat the thairmanship of Mr. A. C. Newbould, lukewarm supporter of Mr. Montagu... Strong protest was made against The Radical journal which described his the entry into the British film industry, -recent-speech on fadian reform in the of American companies, as instanced by House of Lords as one of "gloomy se

the recent formatim af the famous Lasky quiescence was not inaccurate. Where Company in England. The importance, the Secretary of State is enthusiastic,

from a national point of view, of keeping the ex-Viceroy is troubled with any the British industry entirely doubts conscious that the policy in which British control was emphatically urged, h now acquiesces is not in accord with the view being taken that the screen was that which when in India be followed and driven to the weak explanation that fourteen years tay. in some manner which he admits he car valy conjecture, have changed India so far as to make the Montagu policy that which the coun

Resolutions were unanimously passed try needs. Lord Curros has added requesting the Government's support to nothing to the case for the Montagu bill, British film production on a large scale; though be bas stated it with something of urging that the American people be ap b's customary eloquence, Hag Mr. Mouspalet so to reciprocate by showing British tagu, since it first appeared, been able alma in their country requesting British to add anything to the case for it? When capitalists and investors to refrain from The rose to move the second trading of investing in picture theatres under for the Indian Reform Bil', the House em of the British public in demanding that, eign control, and asking the assistance ptied with an alacrity which did not escape his notice, and to which he felt during the shortage of dwelling houses. himself bliged to allure with such than British subjects be erected

co cinema-theatre controlled by other jocularity as he could achieve If the British democracy is really consumed Buchanan, of the flasgow section of the In proposing the resolution. Mr. R. C. with zeal for Indian reforma à la Mon Cinematograph Exhibitors Association, tagu, its elected representatives have said that films were being sent across curious ways of conveying their constitu" from the other side of the Atlantic, which ents' wishes. It may be a more reason were ordinary dramas associated with ab supposition that. as a whole, the the Anti-Salcon League, and all leading British democracy enres little about In dian, reform, and that ity plected sepreideals of the American reformer, ** Pussy- up to the one idea that of advancing th.. sentatives, mostly too little aguainted foot Johnson, and making England a with Indian affairs to oppose Mr. Mon dry country the cinema enn b Itagu, are too suspicious of his project tuneful for American propaganda," con- countenance. it by remaining in House to hear argumenta which they can so for ours, and we are determined that the tinued the speaker, it can pually neither answer nor believe.

However if British wrong want, righting they that may be, it is certain that something shall be righted by British brains and like bo per cent, of the people most con- British means. verned, the people of India, know nothing pression of anti-American ferling, was He added that no ex and care nothing about the Montare intended; they gold 5ght individual Chelmsford scheme, and that even as re-Americans without interfering in any gards the interesten minority the pra way with the relations between the two) jeet Eas fow whole-hearted supporters. runntries. To say, as Mr. Montagu said, that a15, million people were eagerly awaiting the decision of the House torical fight outside the renims 6F. fartageber

is simply arbe Mr Montagu's defence of his bill was not devoid of ingenuity. Thus, in retort ing to critics who thought ten maay de partments would be reserved," and 100 few transferred to quasi-popular con tcol under Indian Ministers, Mr. Mon taga contended that there was nothing in the bill to prevent à Governor of Liberal views working the "reserved departimenta as if they had been "trans. forred." This is true enough. But what does it mean? It means, surely, that the assurances given to people who doubt the practicability of the dual systein are of light value. There is no sure guarantee that any department which experts have judged is essential to rtain under the hureaucratic and miniy British half of the Government will, in fart, be worked by that half of the Government. We have come down to a gamble on the personali. ty of the Governor,

resciution, said that the enorminus im- Mr. J.A. Seddon, M, P., geconding the pórtance and power of the zinema as an

fof education

was not fully learned more by vision then a thought.. real'sed. The great riass of the people The war was going to leave a big serin B for the trades of the world, and the Americans were not going to lose chanceR. The peaceful penetration into the British film industry by people of other coun tries would be more five for the le struction of our national life and ideals than was gerally imagined, and to allow this great agency for public fu- can to fall into the hands of another: country with other ideals would tend to make the people forget they were English- men and women, and they would become international

masses of the Indian people, wholly in experieined in dual government, but in that respect not differing from the rest of the bima me, are to thistinguish be tweet things done by the quasi-popular half of the Government and things done, by the "genuinely British half of the Government. It has set to be made clear what incintive under the new conditions will send into the Civil Service, whence that British half of the Government is drawn, an adequate number of capable" young men

Again, when Mr. Montagu told the House, with a certain effect of epigram, that the only alternative to government by despatch was government by vote, he perhaps said a Best thing. Yet those who know India can only reflect that a vote expressive of the wishes of the bulk of the Indian population is a thing incon erivable at present; and that it is idle to talk of alternatives of which one is actual and the other existent only as a

As the present writer dag privileged to dream of the future. That the systero of Daily Telegraph on January 1st last. indicate in an article published by The government by despatch from the India the attractions of Indian service have Office is often profluctive of harmful de long been declining. The Montagn-t'helins lay and bampering interference with mon who know local conditions is true enough, remains of them. It will also, #s "the toru scheme will destroy almost all thes True, also, is it that government by de Government of India admit in para- spatch cannot be wholly done away with graphs 47 and 48 of their letter of March antil oficialdom in India is made respoa 5th, destroy all security of tenure; for if sible to public opinion in that country. an Indian Minister's orders have to be But to any mind respectful of logic the reversed on a civil servant's appeal to the inference would be in favour of a policy Secretary of State or the Government of of relaxing entral from Whitehall only India, the resultant awkwardness is to be. as a real Indian public opinion' develop remedied by the resignation ed, and not in favour of thrusting the official who higher authority has found of the rote on five million people, mostly into be in the right! Meribers of the xer- capable of using it aright, assuming that vice have made it pown through their those five million can express the wishes naciations, that, they regard the future of fity times their number, and substitut as containing no place for them and their ing for the impartial guardianship of like. Mr. Montagu may speak na loftily. the British an oligarchy of the most in-us he chooses of a Civil Service, whose sole tulerant character ever established,

DEAL GOVERNMENT.

function is to carry out the policy dictated to it. Unlike Lord Curzon. whe paid a fine tribute to British officials Mr. Montagu is justified in claiming in Indin, he may sneer at what, in real for his system of diarchy that it or affected ignorance, he considers the superior, to one whereby the, two halves failure of the existing Civil Service to of the Government would be wholly produce reforms. But by no means can separate. The present writer, long before he secure those picked young Englishmen, the appearance of the Montagu hela when even he declares to be indispensable ford scheme, urged upon r. Montagu, if he fails to provide the inducements in an interview, that, if workable at all, which have hitherto drawn so many of diarchy could be worked only by keep the most brilliant and aspiring of our ing the two halves of the Government as

youth to the service of the Crown in closely bound together as the nature of the India-inducementy not of money, but of system partitted. To which Mr. Mon. opportunity. And if that is the outlook tagu responded with an expression of his over the future, how in the present is hope that the present writer would not the civil servant in India to double the change his opinion i told that he (Mr.ingly as he is ewitched from a "reserved" parts of Clive and the head clerk accord- Mantagu) shared it. But the question whether diarchy is workable remained to a transferred" department," or, to open then, and perhaps so remains, return to a point made earlier in this though with a greatly increased balance article, accordingly as the Governor hap of expert opinion against it. In defend as ur does not happen to be desirous ing his bill Mr. Montagu was unable to

of working reserved" department as adduce any new argument in support of if it had been transferred 1" diarchy. Neither he nor the supporters Mr. Montagu, has left unanswered. It is It is one of the many questions which be not quite fortuitously finds in the his habit to invite criticism, but not to Press have yet answered the principal criticisms which the European Associaheed it. That five provincial governmenta tion of India, in its statement on the have declared against him troubles Montega Chemsford scheme, directed him not at all, But if his bill goes against diarchy. It has set to be shown through without sweeping amendments that the exercise of Ministerial power, tine will show, and very likely by conse when retention of a portfolio in unaffected quences which even he will not be able to by an adverse vote in the Provincial explain away, the perils of a scheme gislative Council i, any test of capacity to exercise Ministerial power aright when the support of the Legislative Conneil is a condition of remaining in office. It has still to be explained how the ignoraht (Continued at foot of next column.)

which hands the Indian mass-over-to-a cieliv and politically intolerant oligar chy dock injustice to the British non- official community in India, and makes no adeguate provision for the supply of such administrator, as he himself admits to be needed.--Daily Telegraph,

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