Onward May 1934

If the Jew with the help of his Marxian creed conquers the nations of this world his crown will be the funeral wreath of the human race and the planet will drive through the ether once again empty of mankind as it did millions of years ago." A determined attitude to fight out Communism was early declared in the Nazi programme of action ; now with HITLER as the Chancellor of Germany not only t [...] The dust of acrimonious controversy that is attempted to be raised if the Swaraj Party's programme should be adopted as that of the Congress need not cloud the real issue before the country— the issue of energising the creative forces of the country by a planned programme of action and service. [...] It is often urged that the needs of the country and demands of the nation are well-known but it does in no way prove that the needs and the demands would not have to be pursued for the sake of fruition. [...] The rise of Japan and laterly of China in the Far East the Philippinos' successful struggle for Independence the modernsation of Siam the breaking away from European hegemony of Turkey Persia and Afghanistan and the recognition of the Independence of Egypt—all these have shattered the dream of the coloupuffed. [...] We had listened with suppressed pain to the stereotyped lectures in the posgraduate classes about provincial finance in the days of the Company—while England went off the gold standard the rupee was forcibly linked with the debased sterling while elsewhere the award of jute export duty and the allocation of income tax were fought and won and lost.