Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday January 18 1942

He was ready he said to accommodate the members of the Working Committee in the Ashram he was ready to make all arrangements for a session of the A. I. C. C. if it was decided to hold it there and he was ready to accommodate all the workers in the various constructive departments that came for talks and consultations with Gandhiji. [...] Though the actual decision came to be made on the basis of the intepretation of the Bombay Resolution what was of vital importance was the actual feeling in the mind of men. [...] President Roosevelt says he and the Allied Powers are fighting the Axis Powers to make the nations of the world free and that the Axis Powers are figthing to enslave the world. [...] The voice of silence was enough to direct the campaign of Civil Disobedience but it is not enough to explain and interpret in terms of non-violence the day-to-day puzzles that arise in the minds of Congressmen and others by reason of the ovcrwhclining events happeing near us. [...] Manual work demands clear thinking the working out of your own solutions to problems." What can be a stronger argument than this last in support of our national plan of education through crafts Against the training for the art of efficient destruction the training which puts the musket on the shoulder of the child who has compulsorily to join the junior branch of the Hitler Jugend ( youth ) at