INDIA’S NATIONALISTS
GANDHI’S PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. ROUGH SCHEME FOR SWARAJ OUTLINED. Received December 26, 7.5 p.m. (Reuter). DELHI, Dec. 25. Gandhi’s presidential address to the National Congress outlines a rough scheme for Swaraj, retaining British connection on perfectly honourable and equal terms. Otherwise he will not hesitate to sever connection. He defends the pact with the Swaraj party and explains that he advised partial suspension of non-co-operation in order to keep Congressmen together. He adds that as an individual he cannot suspend it. As long as the Government remains what it is, they must fight (without violence) to the death against an unholy attempt to impose British methods and institutions upon. India. He dwells on the retention of the boycott on foreign cloth, and reiterates his faith in hand spinning and hand weaving, which, while making the villages self-contained and self-reliant, is fraught with the greatest political consequences. It will remove a very great immoral influence because it has been raised and sustained on the ruin of millions of Indian peasants, and the removal of these temptations will be good for India, Britain and humanity.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19197, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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