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believe, the considered opinion of an eminent
English lawyer who had been consulted by the
Indian Princes. Sir Nizamat, moreover, felt
doubtful as to the utility of Federation to the
British Empire in times of exigency. He was
not sure that the resources of the Indian States
would be placed as readily at the services of the
Empire as of old; and this was a weighty con-
sideration.
In a letter published in England in 1938 for
private circulation by the " Champions of Christ
and the Crown " under the title, The Danger and
the Remedy, was the following paragraph : —
" This has evoked a remonstrance from an
eminent Moslem statesman, scholar, poet, and
philanthropist, Nawab Sir Nizamat Jung Baha-
dur, O.B.E., C.T.E., former Chief Justice and then
Political Secretary of His Exalted Highness
the Nizam of Hyderabad. He asks his English
friends, ' Can it be true that the Christians them-
selves are opening their gates to welcome the
enemies of Jesus Christ and of God ?' In
eloquent appeal, he adjures England, once the
true protector of lawful freedom, not to suc-
cumb to the blandishments of fatal falsehood."
The reference was to the poem, To England
(1938), written by Sir Nizamat Jung while he was
on his fourth pilgrimage to Mecca. He told his
intimate friends how, overpowered by a sudden
impulse one morning in his cabin, he had put into
words what he " felt and visualised when thinking
of the East and the West." This was in sight of