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of the Club." "I had not supplied myself with the full informa- tion before I wrote about the memorial, and what I stated was against actual facts," I am told, and an expected to believe this in spite of myself. I had spoken to the Raja Murli Mono- hur Bahadur on the subject of the scholarship question some- time before the "Club" members thought of drawing up a memorial about it, in the presence of one or two members of the Club. The Raja told us there was no need for memorializing and tried his best to convince us that the Guvernment would throw the scholarships open to all irrespective of caste or creed, And the list of those allowed to sit for the competitive examina- tion held long before the Club's memorial was ready showed what strong reasons the Raja had had for telling us that the Govern- ment would throw the scholarships open to all. I could not for the life of me understand "what more consistent way of defence" I could have found than stating the plain truth.
