INDIA'S DANGER
PASSIVE RESISTANCE OPPOSED LONDON, January 24. Mr Nehru, in a speech at a political conference in Benares, said: “Now is tho time when continuance of passive resistance would be harmful. At present, when we know danger may be imminent, as in the case of Assam, which may be bombed, it would 1 be preposterous find cruel to advise the people to offer passive resistance against war. They don’t need that advice, but an assurance of courage, sympathy, and instruction hacked by action fls how best to meet the situation.” He added that the congress would do its utmost to resist attempted invasion and would not co-operate with an aggressor.
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Evening Star, Issue 24103, 26 January 1942, Page 7
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111INDIA'S DANGER Evening Star, Issue 24103, 26 January 1942, Page 7
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