Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday August 2 1942

He has made some practical suggestions for the transitional stage and appealed to those in charge of the education of our boys and girls to help in freeing the country of the tyranny of the English language. [...] " In judging the value of the suggestions made for extending the scope of this concession it should be remembered that there is no real scarcity in the country that the present sources of supply are sufficient and permission if given for free manufacture and sale would lead to wholesale evasion of duty and consequent loss to the salt revenue." The Government of India are better aware of the c [...] Shall we leave the historians of the future the exquisite pleasure of pointing out that in the first two months of the Pacific war the leaders of the Western democracies committed a greater number of basic costly blunders than any statesmen ever committed in the same period ? " One of those statesmen ' he mentions by name. [...] A tremendous difference in the war morale of the 'Asiatics particularly in the war efforts of India hangs upon the vision of the leaders of the Western democracies and their ability to tell the Indians in more convincing terms than vague promises and unctuous sops of praise that they have something deep and elementary to fight for. [...] The changes in the course of human life brought about by the resigned submission to death of Christ and his apostles and of the several Sikh Gurus and the voluntary self-immolation of Telmachus are but a few instances of the immense power which Death is capable of generating for elevating Life.