Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday March 24 1946

It is clear that just as it is the duty of the public to co-operate in all helpful ways it is the primary duty of the Government to understand and fulfil the essential needs of the people. [...] ' ndia still remains the crux of the problem of A.ian freedom and on the independence of India depends the freedom of many countries and the peace of the world:. [...] The Committee are painful]; surprised to find Field Marshal Smuts the Premier of the Union dismissing on the untenable plea of regarding the proposed antAsiatic bill as a domestic affair the right of the Indian Government and by parity of reasoning of the other Allied Powers of friendly intervention. [...] IV RESOLUTION ON THE RECENT DISTURBANCES The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress are of opinion that the recent disturbances created by the people in Bombay Delhi Calcutta and other places were in every way harmful and were an obstacle in the way of the Congress. [...] One would have thought that the advent of Union would mean the Union of all the races of South Africa e. the Afrit an I the Bantu ) the European and the Asiatics ( primarily and principally Indians ). What a treble tradition such a union would have been for the *odd! But it was not to be.