(EDITORIAL) In recent months several `loyalty tests` had been proposed for the Indian Muslims. But Mr Kripalani, one time `Rashtrapati`, can easily claim the first prize for the invention of the most fantastic of them all. At a public meeting in Delhi and quite seriously too he suggested that the Muslims of the Indian Union should be asl(ed to go in large numbers to Hyderabad State and fight their co-religionists there.

`Otherwise,` he declared, `their professions of loyalty to the Indian Union will mean nothing at all.` To call such utterances deliberate mischief-mongering will be an injustice; a more charitable view is to regard the authors of such statements purely as pathological cases; for they do not know what they are saying. Mr Kripalani is, in fact, condemning his own co-religionists in Pakistan far more than the Muslims of the Indian Union.

... These utterances can do only harm and breed ill-feeling between the peoples of the two Dominions. Not all who hear them or read them in print will be able to take a pathological view. Some may take them to be quite serious and that way lies danger.