Harijan Poona — Saturday December 3 1938

The spectacle ' presented out there by the russet mountain sides bathed in the glory and freshness of the early winter morning was a most inspiring one while the panorama of terraced cultivation which rose tire upon tire from the gloomy depths of the valleys below right up to the dizzy pine-clad tops of the surrounding hills vividly set forth before one the ultimate triumph of the principle of no [...] But the Pathan like the rest of the Mussalmans had allowed the exception to usurp the place of the central principle and almost forgotten the central teaching. [...] During the Bannu raid he was told only one gun on the part of the citizens was in play although there was no lack of fire-arms in the city at the time of the raid and even that gun occasioned more casualties among the public than among the raiders. [...] The Governor is the agent of the Viceroy who is the representative of the Paramount Power. [...] Jorden President of the Council of the League of Nations said at the opening of the nineteenth session of the Assembly of the League of Nations that " the individual nation can no longer have security merely through self-exertion any more than that the individual householder can enjoy security through protection by his own walls and weapons.