TO

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN

BY

LAJPAT RAI

[Illustration]

NEW YORK

B. W. HUEBSCH

MCMXVII

Copyright, 1917, by Lajpat Rai

Printed in the United States of America

AN OPEN LETTER

TO

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

_Prime Minister of Great Britain_

AN OPEN LETTER

TO

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

_Prime Minister of Great Britain_

Sir: I am an Indian who has, by the fear of your Government in India

been forced to seek refuge in the United States, at least for the period

of the war. In 1907, when Lord Minto's Government decided to put into

operation an obsolete Regulation of the East India Company (III of 1818)

against me, in order to put me out of the way, for a while, without even

the form of a trial, Lord Morley, the then Secretary of State for India,

defending his action, gave me the highest testimonial as far as my

private character was concerned. You must have heard that speech though

it would be presumptuous to imagine that you remember it.