૧૩૨ render any help without studying the problem. I have, therefore, come to study it with the assistance, if possible, of the Administration and the planters. I have no other motive and can not believe that my coming can in any way disturb public peace and cause loss of life. I claim to have considerable experience in such matters. The Administration, how- ever, have thought differently. I fully appre- ciate their difficulty and I admit too, that they can only proceed upon information they receive. As a law-abiding citizen my first instinct wo be, as it was, to obey the order served upon me. But I could not do so without doing violence to my sense of duty to those for whom I come. I feel that I could just now serve them only by remain- ing in their midst. I could not, therefore voluntarily retire. Amid this conflict of duty I could only throw the responsibility of removing me from them on the Administration. I am fully conscious of the fact that a person holding in the public life of India, a position such as I do, has to be most careful in set- ting example. It is my firm belief that in the complex constitution under which we are living, the only safe and honourable course
