Stuk 3 - Telegrams from Edwin Montagu to (i) Lord Chelmsford and (ii) Sir George Lloyd

(i) The conduct and discipline of the Bar should, he agrees, be regulated by the High Court, but its attitude [to satyagraha] is likely to hinder the amelioration of conditions in India. Chelmsford assured him some time ago that the Punjab did not treat satyagraha in itself as a crime, and to act against it now it has been abandoned and the ‘magnificent political wisdom’ of Lloyd has avoided the necessity of proceeding against its originator [Gandhi], and to deprive five advocates of their livelihood, is extremely foolish.

(ii) As (i), with minor variations.

(Typed, with handwritten alterations.)