Gandhi Wants To Beat Nazism Without Violence
(Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 13.
The Delhi correspondent of “The Times” says that the selected members of Congress are promulgating Gandhi’s specific views, chiefly in the villages, to indicate that Indian participation in the war conflicts with the Congress ideal of non-violence.
The political policy of Gandhi’s supporters within the Congress party relegates to second place such political aims as early independence, the establishment of national Government and the settlement of domestic controversies.
Gandhi opposes Nazism and hopes it will be defeated, but he does not agree to defeating it by violence.
Majority Oppose
The majority of his followers do not endorse his views, and his intention of limiting the campaign to chosen individuals is claimed to reflect his anxiety to spare Britain excessive embarrassment.
“The Times’” correspondent’s mes-sage-refers to the report that Gandhi has drawn up a list of 1500 Congress members who will invite imprisonment as a result of individual civil disobedience in the form of anti-war activities, - . •
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Northern Advocate, 15 November 1940, Page 8
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