DR. CLARK AND OTHERS

To print this statement, 'She has never seen India
and never studied India at close quarters/ so generally
quoted in the Indian-owned press as coming from the
lips of the author of Christ of the Indian Road, is to
give it sufficient answer.

With regard to Dr. Jones's second paragraph about
Miss Mayo's war book, That Damn Y, a glance at
the official YJVLC.A. organ for July 1920, when the
book was first made public, shows us the feeling of the
organisation toward her work :

The best perspective and survey of the Asso-
ciation's part in the war work has been produced
in a recent book by Katherine Mayo. ... It is
the most complete, the fairest, and most readable
study of the war service yet produced. Miss Mayo
is a trained correspondent and a keen analyst. . . .
People who jumped at conclusions from partial
, and hasty reports will read her book with a new
vision.1

also. But if it is true, then what an awful thing that the American
people should be entrusting to its hands millions of dollars to spend
for our boys in France! Not because of the waste of money, though
that would be bad enough - but because an army of simple sup-
porters think the job is being done. If they are deceived - why,
can't you see that the best service you can, possibly render is to
get over there, go through the field with care, and then tell America
exactly what you find ?'*

'Finally, unwillingly persuaded/ Miss Mayo adds, CI stated my
terms : I would go to France a free agent, paying my own expenses
from the start, beholden to the organisation for nothing but the
right to wear its uniform and for free access to all its records and
all its work. , . . I specifically emphasised ray intention to state
the facts as I found them, to the best of my judgment, without re-
gard |o whose feelings they might hurt/

1Association Men, New York, July, 1920.

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