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1. Cable T0 G. K. Gokhale 1. CABLE T0 G. K. GOKHALE DURBAN, December 26, 1913 PRAY ASSURE HIS EXCELLENCY FROM YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF ME I WOULD DO EVERYTHING CONCEIVABLY POSSIBLE FOR ME NOT EMBARRASS OUR GOVERNMENT. I ASSURE YOU HIS UNFLINCHING ADVOCACY1 HAS CREATED SILENT SUBTLE INFLUENCE FAVOUR BRITISH CONNECTION WHICH NO DECLARATION NO COMMISSIONS COULD POSSIBLY HAVE DONE. HIS UNEQUIVOCAL, COURAGEOUS PRONOUNCEMENT HAD RING SINCE- RITY WHICH PRODUCED PROPOUND IMPRESSION UPON EURO- PEANS INDIANS. AM EXPECTING HOURLY REPLY FROM INTERIOR ABOUT PROPOSED PRIVATE INTERVIEW. OTHER LOCAL INFLUENCES WORKING OUR FAVOUR. YOU KNOW INTE- RIOR’S REPLY SAYS GOVERNMENT INTENDED MAKE COMMIS- SION IMPARTIAL; THAT THEY DID NOT CONSULT PLANTERS TIME APPOINTMENT STOP AT INTERVIEW IF GRANTED OTHER- WISE PUBLICLY BEFORE MARCHING, SHALL ASSUME GOVERN MENT’S IMPARTIALITY WITHDRAW CHARGE PARTISAN CHARAC- TER AND FORSAKE MAKING GOOD FUNDAMENTAL POSITION, THAT OUR SENTIMENT SHOULD BE FORMALLY [OR] INFORMALLY CONSULTED RESPECTED AND FOR APPEASING COMMUNITY. IN PRESENT STATE TENSION, SUSPICION, INDIGNATION, REQUEST NOMINATION ONE ONLY ADDITION MEMBER OUR SIDE, PLAN- TERS HAVING RIGHT NOMINATE ONE THEIRS. APPREHEND NO DIFFICULTY REGARDING DISCHARGE PASSIVE RESISTANCE PRISONERS WE NOT ASKING SO CALLED PASSIVE RESISTERS, IF ANY, CONVICTED VIOLENCE STOP EVERYBODY ADMITS ABSO- LUTE NECESSITY DISCHARGE. “PRETORIA NEWS” STRONGLY URGES GOVERNMENT ACCEPT PRAYER. COULD HIS EXCELLENCY POSSIBLY URGE ACCEPTANCE THIS MIDDLE COURSE WHICH, WITHOUT IMPAIRING OUR PRINCIPLE, WOULD CAUSE GOV- ERNMENT NO LOSS DIGNITY PRESTIGE, SMOOTHS WAY FUTURE PERMANENT SETTLEMENT. ARE TRYING OUR SIDE AND YOU 1 The reference is to Lord Hardinge’s speech at Madras on November 24. Vide “Lord Hardinge’s Speech, 3-12-1913. VOL. 14 : 26 DECEMBER, 1913 - 20 MAY, 1915 1 SHOULD YOURS TO SEE THAT IF FORTUNATELY WE ENABLED ACCEPT COMMISSION AND SUSPEND STRUGGLE. NO DOUBT LEFT COMMISSION COVERING ALL GRIEVANCES.1 GANDHI Servants of India Society 2. CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE2 DURBAN, December 26, 1913 OATH INCLUDES NOT FIRST JANUARY. ALREADY PROMISED CLERGY REASONABLE POSTPONEMENT. NOTHING FROM INTERIOR YET. GANDHI Servants of India Society 3. CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE DURBAN, December 26, 1913 SERVINDIA POONA CITY WEST WENT DELIVER MY CABLE FOUND YOURS3 ABOUT FUNDS AND REPLIED. REASON FOR ASKING YOU HOLD FUNDS IS NONE KNOWS LIMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT’S REPRESSIVE METHOD. THEY MAY UNDER MARTIAL LAW SEIZE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY. MARTIAL LAW WAS SERIOUSLY SUGGESTED. BET- TER THEREFORE IF YOU HOLD FUNDS AND SEND AS REQUIRED. MOVEMENT SPREADING BEYOND ALL EXPECTATION. REMAIN BESIEGED BY PEOPLE ALL DAY. MARCH WILL BE POSTPONED 1 Gokhale, in reply, cabled the next day: “I repeated yesterday Viceroy your cable asking him support, suggested middle course. He replies, many thanks telegram, repeating substance Lord Crewe,” 2 This was in reply to the following cable of the same date from Gokhale: “Cable urgent if oath includes 1st January as definite date renewal. Has interview been granted.” 3 Gokhale’s cable dated December 26 read: “Cabling tomorrow seven thousand Bombay one thousand Madras.” 2 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI ALMOST CERTAINLY. WHILST THERE IS HOPE OF PEACE AM NOT FIXING PRELIMINARIES NECESSARY PROVIDING PROBABLY FIVE THOUSAND MARCHERS WHOSE RANKS MAY SWELL, TWENTY THOUSAND AS MOURNING BUT DETERMINED MEN WOMEN PROCEED. AM ATTENDING MASS MEETING1 MARITZBURG SATURDAY. ARRANGING YOUR CABLES BEING REPEATED. WILL GIVE PROMPTEST ATTENTION CABLE INSTRUCTIONS. GANDHI Servants of India Society 4. LETTER TO MARSHALL CAMPBELL 110, FIELD STREET, DURBAN, December 26, 1913 DEAR MR. MARSHALL CAMPBELL2, I learnt only two or three days ago that you had returned from England. Will you allow me to tell you how deeply concerned I was when I learnt that your men were among the first to strike on the coast? At an important meeting, when I was actually asked why I would not advocate a strike on the sugar plantations also, I replied that we were endeavouring to confine the area to the collieries only, in the hope that the strike on the collieries would be a sufficient demons- tration to secure relief. Whilst I was at Newcastle organizing relief for the collieries’ men who had come out, I was asked by my co-workers in Durban what answer to give to the coastal Indians who wanted to join the movement, and I emphatically told them that the time was not ripe for them to do so. Later, too, when I was again approached, I made the same statement and one of my last letters3 before my arrest was that, as we were so much indebted to you for your efforts to bring about the repeal of the £3 tax legislation, your men should be the last to be called out; but I am absolutely certain that after my arrest the workers found it impossible to control the men and the movement became not only spontaneous, but it assumed gigantic proportions. I would like you to enter into our feelings. Had I been free and assisted in calling out the men, I must freely admit that I would have certainly 1 Vide “Speech at Maritzburg”, 27-12-1913. 2 Chairman, Board of Directors, Natal Estates, Ltd. 3 These are not available. VOL. 14 : 26 DECEMBER, 1913 - 20 MAY, 1915 3 endeavoured to call out your men also; but, as I have already stated, yours would have been the last estate. As you know, in this struggle for honour and self-respect, and for the relief of the distress of my dumb and helpless countrymen, the indentured Indians, it was not possible for us to consider or confine the extent of our sufferings. In this struggle we have not hesitated to invite our own women and children to suffer and lose their all, and we could not very well be expected to consider the interests of individual friends and sympathisers. In all our strugglesof this nature the innocent as well as the guilty suffer. I hope, therefore, that neither my countrymen nor I have forfeited the valuable co-operation andsympathy which you have always extended. I may state that I am just now carrying on delicate negotiations with General Smuts, in spite of his rejection of our prayer, and if you have the leisure and could interest yourself in the negotiations, and if you would appoint a time and place, I would come over and discuss the situation. Both Messrs Kallenbach and Polak, who have pleasant recollec- tions of the luncheon you gave in honour of Mr. Gokhale, associate themselves in the sentiments I have expressed.1 I am, etc., M. K. GANDHI THE HON. MARSHALL CAMPBELL MOUNT EDGECOMBE The Natal Mercury, 5-1-1914 5. INTERVIEW TO REUTER2 [DURBAN, Before December 27, 1913] Mr. Gandhi, interviewed by Reuter on the subject of the reply received from Government,3 said that there seemed in it a tone of conciliation of which he was trying to take advantage. He would not state anything beyond saying that he had placed himself in private communication with the Government, but he thought that a way out of the deadlock was possible, and that, without any loss of 1 For Marshall Campbell’s reply vide footnotes to “Letter to Marshall Campbell”, 1-1-1914 2 This was reproduced in lndian Opinion, 31-12-1913. 3 Vide “Lord Hardinge’s Speech”, 3-12-1913. 4 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI prestige or dignity, Government could respond to the earnest prayer of the Indian community for the representation of its interests. The Government’s declaration that it, at any rate, did not intend the Commission to bear a partisan character was a hopeful sign. He added that he wanted to assure the Europeans in South Africa that he felt just as much for the Europeans as for his own countrymen, regarding the sufferings to be undergone by them both in a struggle of this gigantic nature; and that, realizing fully his sense of responsibility, he would leave no stone unturned to avoid a revival of passive resistance. He claimed to rank amongst the staunchest loyalists alike to the ImperialGovernment as to the Union Government and, his loyalty being rather to the Constitution than to persons, was unaffected by acts of the Government, however harsh he might consider them to be. He, therefore, begged the citizens of South Africa to believe him in his declaration that he would leave nothing, short of compromising his own conscience, undone to avoid a recrudescence of the sufferings. On his release from imprisonment, he was deeply pained to learn that employers on the coast, for some of whom he entertained high regard, had to suffer losses. He only hoped that the Government would appreciate the private communication which he had made, and that the European public would lend their support even though it might be on trust. The Natal Mercury, 27-12-1913 6. CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE1 DURBAN, December 27, 1913 WILL CERTAINLY POSTPONE TILL ROBERTSON’S ARRIVAL. MAY WE GIVE PUBLIC RECEPTION STOP IN EVENT PRESENT NEGO- TIATIONS FAILING MAY WE ANNOUNCE WE AWAITING ARRIVAL 1 This had reference to the following cable which Gandhiji received the same day from Gokhale: “Understand if Robertson starts twenty-ninth will reach about eighth. But arrangements departure suspended pending your definite promise that he will have at least one week there before you renew struggle. Viceroy meanwhile undertaking move Lord Crewe secure adjournment Commission till end week. Do you promise? Cable explicitly. You certainly entitled if your present negotiations fail announce reason postponement struggle, also to abstain from participation inquiry if Commission not adjourned. Public reception Robertson desirable.” Vide also the following item. VOL. 14 : 26 DECEMBER, 1913 - 20 MAY, 1915 5 BEFORE RECOMMENCING. MEANWHILE WE SHALL REFRAIN GIVING EVIDENCE. GANDHI Servants of India Society 7. CABLE TO G.
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