Prediction

Two members of TIME'S London Bureau joined last week in sending their editors the following prediction:

There will be a historic blowup in India after the elections end, perhaps in late March. Whether it will be anti-British as the extremists say, or whether it will be intramural as the Government says, is not pertinent now. Fleet Street's editors have been quietly alerted. The Nationalists are holding their fire and the British are afraid of aggravating a tense situation.

We hesitate to predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The reasons are partly historic and partly aggravated by the present situation (the use of Indian troops in Java, for one thing). Certainly the tinderbox has been moved nearer the match by the Indians' frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant--1) that the British are keeping such large numbers of troops there instead of demobilizing them; and 2) that both sides agree that Russian influence to date is not responsible.

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