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...loan of ?20,000,000 to ?30, 000,000 as a condition of the return of confiscated property in Russia. Lord Curzon, onetime Foreign Secretary, charged the Soviets with backing Sinn Fein in Ireland, training Indian extremists in Moscow for the special purpose of breaking up the British Raj in India, establishing agencies in South Africa to break up the Union, conducting propaganda and intrigue against Great Britain in Persia...
Mahatma Gandhi has often expressed the opinion that the future of Islam is in India. Mahammadans have always been the most fanatical opponents of the British raj. If they attempt to create an Indian Califate, anarchy is almost sure to follow...
Gandhi was arrested in 1922 and charged with sedition, for which he received a sentence of six years' imprisonment. His policy was noncoöperation; his creed, "The power of the soul." His policy was designed to fight the British Raj; his creed, to make Hindus worthy of self-government...
...significance of such a step is not apparent. Swaraj is a political movement which aims at achieving Indian independence by means of a policy of noncoöperation as opposed to violence. Taraknath Das,* in his book India in World Politics,† apart from comment on the British Raj which is neither equitable, honest nor impartial, sums up compendiously the aspiration of the Swaraj. It is not to be wondered at that the London Daily Telegraph, alluding to the action of Lord Lytton, said that "the event will doubtless be noted by the future historian as a landmark...
...Take no part in Government of British Raj...