LONDON: Under the heading “Churchill must go” H.G. Wells, in the Socialist weekly ‘Tribune’, describes the British Prime Minister as a “Would-be British Fuehrer”. Mr. Wells says “Churchill’s ideology picked up the garrison life of India, on the reefs of South Africa, the maternal home and conversation of wealthy Conservative households is a pitiful jumble of incoherent nonsense. A boy scout is better equipped. He has never given evidence of thinking extensively or of any literary capacity. His ignorance of contemporary social science is conspicuous. He has served his purpose, and it is high time he retired before we forget [the] debt we owe him. We want him to go — now — before he discredits us further, for his own sake as well as ours, and he takes all the royalties in the world with him — so much the better for human hope. The matter is urgent.

[Meanwhile,] it is a well known fact that an important section of Congressmen, including some of those behind prison bars are very anxious to understand Muslim India through “DAWN”. When almost all the papers are permitted to political prisoners in the Jails of this province, “DAWN” has been disallowed in Nagpur Central Jail. (Dawn, Delhi)

Published in Dawn, December 17th, 2014