Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday May 17 1942

“ The Kaffirs were defeated but they proved much too virile a people to go under as the blacks of Australia or the reskins of North America did; ” the blacks in Australia were exterminated but the “ primary problem of policy is now the desire to keep the yellow man out of the vast open spaces of Australia”; not until a whole series of wars did the Maoris of New Zealand “ these contumacious p [...] Some 300 000 square miles were added to the British Empire in the nineteenth century and “ much of this expansion had unfortunately to be achieved by the use of force against the original inhabitants — black brown or yellow — of the square miles in question.” This led to rivalry and bickerings ultimately leading to the world war in which Britain was victorious and Britain’s share of the spoils [...] But the abolition was the result of a bloody war between the South and the North; and so though the Negro's lot is considerably better than before he still remains the outcaste of high society. [...] It will remain poor as long as the Universities make no use of it in teaching all branches of knowledge." Remember that Telugu and not Urdu is the mother-tongue of the majority of the people in this part of the country. [...] Though the Chinese performed the amazing feat of bodily removing the machinery of about 150 large factories (weighing over 15 000 tons ) by small boats to Chungking and up the 300 steps of the city by coolies the products of the textile mills could not suffice for the needs of the army and the people and cloth became scarce.