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...Everyone stays asleep. . . . They talk politics, of getting somebody out of office. . . . They saw they would be putting their money down a rat hole with the present politicians in office. . . . We [the committee] have the organization to co??rdinate and direct efforts of the people to save their city, but there are no efforts for us to co??rdinate. . . . We will be fortunate to get $20,000,000 together. We have canvassed many large taxpayers but they feel they do not want the money they put up wasted...
...that was contemplated by Saint Gandhi last week was that the Congress should follow up his Declaration of Independence by exhorting 250 million Indians to stop paying taxes, stop buying British goods, indulge in a passive orgy of "nonviolent non-co??peration...
...make up the deficiency necessary to maintain themselves as a great power and still pay what they owe the U. S. in War debts. Because previous Indian boycotts have always broken down, British statesmen were anxious rather than frightened last week, calmly faced the probability that before "nonviolent non-co??peration" has gotten very far there will be enough casual rioting and bloodshed to justify the reimprisonment of Mr. Gandhi (let out of jail in 1924), and the mowing down of a goodly number of gentlemen in white, ladies in pink...
...heart and soul with Gandhi, and his fervor caused his incarceration for a brief spell at Alipore. Noncoöperation was soon proved to be leading nowhere. Of the 46 million Bengalese, not 10% voluntarily supported the movement; while an insignificant but dangerous section of the population thought non-co??peration the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly in the holy waters of the Ganges, what did it matter to them who ruled India? And, farther south, the millions of Tamils, Telagus, and others knew little, saw little, felt little, except the heat...
...tactics, in view of sporadic terrorist activities. He saw that Swaraj could be obtained only through supporting the dyarchical system and the lawful suppression of violence. He asked the Government to cooperate by abrogating its arbitrary powers to arrest and punish agitators. Gandhi joined him last autumn, and non-co??peration came...