Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday March 31 1946

Did not the Governor of Bengal observe in a broadcast talk the other day that the cultivator in Bengal remains unemployed for six months in the year ? Can any population in the world subsist while remaining idle for half the year Even if all the water that the rains bring were captured and harnessed to irrigation it would not keep the masses alive if their enforced unemployment for the better part [...] " Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses the prince and the pauper by saying that the former need more. [...] Violence interrupts the process and prolongs the real revolution of the whole social structure." The conditions necessary for the success of Satyagraha are : (1) The Satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent. [...] Would they help the people to fight it with the same courage cohesion doggedness and resourcefulness which they had shown on the battlefield ? Would they show the same diligence mastery and skill in handling the spade the pickaxe and the hoe as they did in shouldering the. [...] The reference is to Cromwell's Ironsides : These persons sober moral diligent and accustomed to reflect had been induced to take up arms not by the pressure of want not by the love of novelty and license not by the arts of the recruiting officers but by religious and political zeal mingled with the desire of distincticn and promotion.