MR. GANDHI'S CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 10

MR. GANDHI'S CAMPAIGN

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your leader of the 9th April, dealing with Mr. Gandhi's present campaign iigainst Imperial rule in India, you state that his position is "embarrassing" and resultant of a "barren triumph," and that ho Js again-adding "failure to failure, and farce to" farce." No right-minded person will deny to India the right of self-government when the time is opportune,1 nor should he ridicule a movement which will advance such an ideal. Owing to religious and racial conflict throughout the ages, India has been divided and robbed of that unity of National Sentiment so essential to a people who wish to govern themselves. By probing below the surface of events, cannot one see in Gandhi's activities that fanning of -the flame of national sentiment, which will prove India's sulvntion? Throughout tho ages it has been the proud boast of Eugland that she spreads the! spirit of freedom and self determination, and if thera be anything _in environment, India, by long association with the British Empire, must naturally have imbibed this spirit of freedom. ' '.'■■■'■

I am inclined to think that Mr. Gandhi has rightly perceived India's weakness, and: that, through his efforts will ultimately evolve an India strong enough in itself to stand1 erect as another great and honoured unit withia the Common wealth of British Nations. The wheels of national time move slowly, and the future may yet prove Mr. Gandhi to be a man who has greStly advanced the spirit of freedom so fundamental to: the eonstitu* tion of the British Empire.—l am, etc., . JUSTICE