Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday March 1 1942

China has been hammered in the furnace of pain and sacrifice into one of the great nations of the earth The secret of that resurrection is due to the inspired leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. [...]. Life from childhood to old age is the energetic ceaseless use of our faculties at first chiefly for the satisfaction of the needs of one's own existence to secure one's own footing in life but next as one's mental perspective broadens the family the village the community the nation and mankind become objects of the desire to express oneself and give of oneself. [...] I say " somewhat ". For part of the time was taken up by Gandhiji in explaining the genesis and course of satyagraha and non-coopertion and also in demonstrating to the Generalissimo and the Madame the action of his " weapon of war " — a weapon which as he explained " makes no noise which does not kill but which if anything gives life." The Madame watched the working of the dhanush takl [...] I know that the Price Control Conference is a purely official body but if the Conference is to serve the interests of the poor by keeping in touch with the realities of the situation and acquainting itself from time to time with the effects of the policy pursued by Government it is its duty to consult representtives of the non-official mercantile community. [...] You have also to spin regularly if y9u are to identify yourself with the poorest in the land and then add to this the many things in the programme whose complete fulfilment is Complete Independence in the truest sense of the word.