Correspondence with Mr.Gandhi August 1942-April 1944

Then the resolution proceeds "The suggestion put forward by the Congress Party that the millions of India tincertain as to the future are ready despite the sad lessons of so many martyr countries to throw themselves into the arms of the invaders is one that the Government of India.cannot accept as a true representation of the feeling of the people of this great country". [...] Government's answer to the Coi gress demand is hasty repression they will not wonder if I draw the inference that it was not so much the Allied cause that weighed with the British Goverment as the unexpressed determination to cling to the possession of India as an indispensable part of the imperial policy This determination led to the rejection of the Congress demand and precipitated repr [...] SIR In spite of the chorus of approval sung by the Indian Councillors and others of the present Government policy in dealing with the Congress I venture to assert that had the Government but 'awaited my contemplated letter to His Excellency the Viceroy and the result thereafter no calamity would have ovetaken the country. [...] that was not the case; has been a real disappointment to me all the more when I think of these murders the burning alive of police officials the wrecking of trains the destrution of property the misleading of these yoting students which has done so Quell harm to India's good name and to the Congress Party: You may take it from the that the newspaper accounts you mention are well founded [...] As to the disavowal referred to in the proposed communiq0.6 the Goveriment are aware that I regard the non-violent mass movement for the launcing of which the Congress gave me authority on the 8th of August last as pe-fectllegitimate and in the interest both of the. Government and the public.