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...Mahatma sat singing on top of a fence
...said, 'Oh Mahatma, I fear I am dense...
...said, 'Oh Mahatma, pray why do you chant...
Point of No Return. Since mid-1942, when the Raj last imprisoned the Mahatma, both he and his political instrument, the All-India National Congress, had declined in power. Malaria, amoebic dysentery, low blood pressure, hookworm, anemia, weak heart & kidneys had sapped his body. His wife had died. All the leading members of the Congress Working Committee had been jailed since they voted an ultimatum to Great Britain to leave India to the Indians immediately or face mass civil disobedience (Gandhi's famed, fateful "Quit India" resolution...
...Mahatma retreated-or seemed to retreat-on other fronts. He said that he has no intention of reviving his old weapon, civil disobedience, while the war lasts. He assured Lord Wavell that he wants to aid the Allied cause, recognizes that India is a base of military operations. In a sentence laden with admission that much had happened to him and to India, he said: "I have no intention of taking the country back...