Onward 7th December 1933

Nothing would tend more to' thin down the ranks of the idealistic dreamers than a part in the administration of the country and a hand in recovering the land from the morass of depression. [...] They are 3 as the Secretary of State put it so clearly nowhere in the nature of Dominion Status even provincial autonomy is hedged in with safeguards of every conceivable variety ; the control of the public finances will rest in the hands of the GovernoGeneral to amuse himself with ; in the name of honesty is this fair dealing ? The country is not on the same level Of itellectual capacity [...] The advocates of scientific socialism propose to build the edifice of State-Capitalism on the debris of the private capitalism of to-day. [...] Jawhadisturbing factor in Indian politics it lal has displayed a refleclive mind would help to accentuate class-hatred in the analysis of the world conditions and sap the silken chords of affection but the tragedy is that he has been amongst the various strata of the society caught in the tide of the world's destruand as such it may be said that tive forces. [...] This is a peacefUl family ; there the purity of the character and there is the tie of affection and the bliss of which nothing else demands the preservation of the cottage industries.