Produced by spend, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) _OTHER BOOKS BY LAJPAT RAI_ YOUNG INDIA _An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement from Within_ Price $1.50 net ENGLAND'S DEBT TO INDIA _A Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy in India_ Price $2.00 net THE ARYA SAMAJ _An Account of its Origins, Doctrines and Activities_ Price $1.75 net OBTAINABLE FROM ALL BOOKSELLERS AN OPEN LETTER 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. MY CREDENTIALS