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Engineer concerned. The re-inssatement, I need hardly tell
you, is due not to a conviction on the part of the authorities of
Mr. Maucherji's innocence-though there is not the slightest
doubt that he is innocent-but to the fact that he is a man of
influence.
Since writing this I have seen a leader on the Diamond case
in this morning's issue of the "Deccan Standard" in which the
Nawab Vicar-ul-mulk is extolled for the way in which he acquitted himself of the very difficult task of writing a manifesto
for the Nizam. It is difficult to understand wherein lies the
excellence of the manifesto-whether in the laudatory phrases
showered upon his Judges, or in the silly condemnation of
Jacob's past conduct and the consequent proclamation of the
gullibility of His Highness and those about him or in the tone
of warm approval in which the Prince of Wales' condescension
to appear before a Court of Justice is spoken of-for effect to
be sure. I should like to ask the Nawab Vicar-ul-mulk to compare
his fulsome praise of Judges in the manifesto with the lashing
administered by His Excellency the Minister in the resolution
issued on the City Murder Case, as well as how far the approval
of the Prince of Wales' conduct was time-serving and how far
sincere, seeing that His Highness the Nizam thought it consistent with his dignity only to appear before a commission in
Hyderabad and thinks it derrogatory to go to the Calcutta
High Court. It would be also interesting to know whether the
far-sighted Vicar calculated on the counter-blast' in which
Jacob trumpets forth to the world. The Nizam purchased the
diamond outright. He may say anything he likes now. I have
no fear of the result of the case."
