Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday March 22 1942

The deplorable fact is that the Commerce Member who says that the problem in October was neither shortage of wheat nor control of wheat prices does not realise that control of prices has the inevitable result of producing scarcity of the article concerned unless it is accompanied by the safeguarding measure of making the commodity available at control prices by Government themselves. [...] ' The barbarians ' say they on the one hand chase us into the sea; the sea on the other throws us back upon the barbarians and we have only the hard choice left of perishing by the sword or by the waves. [...] A walk through our tannery at Nalwadi or the one run by Shri Satish Chandra Dasgupta at Calcutta will show the visitor that every part of a carcase the horns the hide the hoofs the fat the flesh the bones the entrails etc. [...] breed without the law '." While sympathising with the sufferings of the people of Europe the writer feels their misfortune is due in large measure to their callous indifference to and participation in the sufferings and exploitation of the people of Asia Africa and other so-called backward peoples. [...] " Similar atrocities can be attributed to the Belgians in the Congo the French in Equtorial Africa the Portuguese in Angola the Spaniards in Morocco the Italians in Lybia and Abyssinia and the Germans in S. W. Africa.