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Although we dO not, doubt that Mr. Gandhi is least

powerful while he is allowed his freedom; we must confess to a twinge of misgiving as to whether it is desirable to. bend the laW in order to establish the ineffectiveness of Mr. Gandhi. Indians who have committed smaller offences' against the law. than Mr. Gandhi himself have 'been arrested in various parts of India. Some people who-arc not merely -pedants may question whether it is not a little too dangerous to make the law discriminatory for political purposes. The law, we are commonly told, is the law–zit is nc)t- an -adaptable thing. On the .other 'hand, Indians notoriously have not the English con- ception of the law, and are not likely to lose " cOn- fidence " in it for reasons which would be cogent in this country.

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