Harijan Poona—Saturday June 4 1938

You may adopt non-violence simply because the violent method of exerting political pressure is obviously impracticable which has been the case in India or you may be noviolent because you have reached a condition of spiritual development in which the use of violence is intolerable." That really is the distinction between the non-violence of the brave and the non-violence of the weak the non [...] And who has worked the miracle ? The Proclamtion ? The agitation organised by the workers ? The sudden awakening of the Nambudris to their sense of duty ? Or the sudden awakening of the Harijans to their sense of strength and their determination to wipe out the past ? All these and more. [...] They also deputed Maulana Abul Kalaam Azad Sardar Vallabhbhai and Bibu Rajendra Prasad to meet the Cabinet and the Congress members of the Assembly to go into the differences and to compose them if possible to investigate the charges that were being brought against some of the Ministers and to help and supervise in the formation if it became necessary of a new Cabinet. [...] The error of judgment here perhaps lay in the fact that most of the nominees concered were Congressmen and that in appointing' them it was only the consolidation of the power of the Congress that was contemplated. [...] Recent circulars to all the officers from the highest to the lowest point out that the removal of untouchability and temple worship on equal terms and use of public places by people of all castes is one of the essential basic principles of the State and that all officers are expected to carry out the same as an essential part of their duty.