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1. Letter to Arthur Moore 2. Letter to K. Suryaprakasa Rao 3. Letter to S. Radhakrishnan 1. LETTER TO ARTHUR MOORE December 28, 1940 DEAR MR. MOORE1, Many thanks for your reasoned letter. I see that we cannot agree as to facts and, where we agree, we view them from different angles of vision. Therefore we must for the time being agree to differ. ‘We shall know each other better when the mists have rolled away.’ I know that our friendship can easily bear the strain of our differences. With compliments of the season. Yours sincerely, M. K. GANDHI From a copy: Pyarelal Papers. Courtesy: Pyarelal 2. LETTER TO K. SURYAPRAKASA RAO SEVAGRAM, December 28, 1940 DEAR SHRI SURYAPRAKASA RAO, Your postcard dated 24th instant. You must spin, wear khadi, learn Hindi and do some constructive work while retaining your present job. Yours sincerely, M. K. GANDHI From a copy: C.W. 10275. Courtesy: K. Suryaprakasa Rao 3. LETTER TO S. RADHAKRISHNAN SEVAGRAM, WARDHA, December 28, 1940 DEAR SIR RADHAKRISHNAN, I have just finished your convocation address which you so kindly sent me. I liked it very much. Your language is all your own. 1 Editor, The Statesman VOL. 80 : 28 DECEMBER, 1940 - 17 AUGUST, 1941 1 You will, however, let me say that I miss the strength which I would expect from your pen or speech. The message of non-violence demands the utmost strength without sting behind it. Yours sincerely, M. K. GANDHI From a facsimile: Mahatma, Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Vol. 6, between pp. 8 and 9 4. LETTER TO J. B. KRIPALANI SEVAGRAM, WARDHA, December 28, 1940 MY DEAR PROFESSOR, Why do you complain about my dealing directly with the Presidents and issuing Press notes? There is nothing irregular in this. And how cumbersome to do all these things through you? Mahadev might have sent you copies. But you will pity him if you saw him at work. And if and when he too goes! You are overdue. I sent you a wire in reply to your letter. No reply and no Kripalani! I hope you found Sucheta1 in g[ood] he[alth]. Love. BAPU From the original: C.W. 10877. Courtesy: Girdhari Kripalani 5. LETTER TO PREMABEHN KANTAK SEVAGRAM, WARDHA, December 28, 1940 CHI. PREMA, I got your fine letter. I will forward it to Dhotre2 and others and then to Narandas. 1 Addressee’s wife 2 Raghunath Shridhar Dhotre, Secretary, Gandhi Seva Sangh 2 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI I have heard that Sushila1 visited you. You must, therefore, have come to know everything. Bhagavat2 also had written to me. Sarojinidevi3 also had told me that spinning, prayers and so on were going on regularly. I hope that all the women will come out [of jail] with good health after having acquired great skill in constructive work. Prabhavati is here. She travelled a lot with Jayaprakash. She has been here for three days. Jayaprakash will come either today or tomorrow and take her away. She has benefited by your teaching and your guidance. She will start her work from January 1. She had gone out taking one month’s leave. Don’t be guided by newspaper reports about my health. I am quite all right. I am taking care of my health. So long as God wishes to take work from me, He will keep me in health. Ba is with me. She is calm. Lilavati is restraining her desire to come here. Mahadev and others are fine. Blessings from BAPU From a photostat of the Gujarati: G.N. 10416. Also C.W. 6855. Courtesy: Premabehn Kantak 6. LETTER TO SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE4 SEVAGRAM, WARDHA, December 29, 1940 MY DEAR SUBHAS, You are irrepressible whether ill or well. Do get well before going in for fireworks. I have not been in consultation with Maulana Saheb. But, when I read in the papers about the decision, I could not help approving of it. I am surprised that you won’t distinguish between discipline and indiscipline. 1 Sushila Pai 2 Manager, Saswad Ashram 3 Sarojini Naidu 4 This was in reply to the addressee’s letter dated December 23; vide “Letter From Subhas Chandra Bose”, 23-12-1940 Mukundlal Sircar, with Gandhiji’s approval, released the correspondence to the Press. VOL. 80 : 28 DECEMBER, 1940 - 17 AUGUST, 1941 3 But I quite agree with you that either of you is more than a match for the Maulana Saheb as far as popularity is concerned. But a man has to put conscience before popularity. I know that in Bengal it is difficult to function effectively without you two. I know, too, that you can carry on even without the Congress. But the Congress has to manage somehow under the severe handicap. Suresh1 wrote to me that Sarat was coming. I have been waiting. He can come any time he chooses, and so can you too. You know, you will be well looked after here. As for your Bloc2 joining civil disobedience, I think, with the fundamental differences between you and me, it is not possible. Till one of us is converted to the other’s view, we must sail in different boats, though their destination may appear, only appear, to be the same. Meanwhile let us love one another, remaining members of the same family that we are.3 Yours, BAPU The Hindu, 24-2-1941 7. LETTER TO DEVDAS GANDHI SEVAGRAM, December 29, 1940 CHI. DEVDAS, I got your letters. It is enough for me that you understand my love. If you are ignorant, you alone are not to blame. I am equally to blame, am I not? Has not the education of all you brothers remained incomplete? I do not regret that. I am aware of it. You too have been 1 Suresh Chandra Banerjee 2 All-India Forward Bloc 3 In his reply dated January 10, 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose said: “I am glad to receive your letter . not so much for the contents, as for the clarification of your views. It is not merely my personal desire to offer hearty and sincere co-operation, but it is the desire of many who stand with me. For doing this, it is neither necessary nor desirable to surrender or abandon our political principles and connections. In the previous struggle, many worked shoulder to shoulder with ardent Gandhi ites while differing from them on several important questions. Why should not this happen again? I beg of you to reconsider your decision. .” Vide also “Letter to Mukundalal Sircar”, 16-2-1941. 4 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI the victims of my experiments. But is not that true of the whole of India? Critics say that I am destroying the country. Pyarelal’s statement contains pure truth. It was not drafted to prove anything. The letter1 to Hitler also was prompted from within. There is no bitterness in it at all. But it certainly states what I believe to be truth. Your scepticism in this regard does not pain me. It is a virtue to see only the good in others. But if we see the bad and still cover it up, isn’t that a vice? Was it not I who used to sing ‘God Save the King’? After much experience, I have come to see the darker side. I have received the Government’s reply2. I am sending you a copy of it. It is poisonous. I am in no hurry to see the letter to Hitler published. It is enough for me that you are ready. I will write to you when the time for you comes. What you have said in the letter to Mahadev about your policy is correct. There is no need for you to stand alone. It is better to take a stand which others can share. I cannot send Mahadev to take your place. My suggestion was quite different. But that also cannot be done now. You may play whatever part you can. This is but the beginning of the country’s fight. The worst is yet to come. Let us see how long God keeps me. God knows what work He wants from me. I merely dance to His tune. Blessings from BAPU From a photostat of the Gujarati: G.N. 2023 8. LETTER TO SIR J. G. LAITHWAITE SEVAGRAM, WARDHA, December 30, 1940 DEAR MR. LAITHWAITE, I thank you for your letter3 of 27th instant, received yesterday. Your letter raises a fundamental question. I can fully appreciate the fact that His Excellency could only hold the view he does. The 1 Vide “Letter to Adolf Hitler”, 24-10-1940 2 Vide footnote 2, “Telegram to Sir J. G. Laithwaite; also the following item. 3 Vide footnote 2, “Telegram to Sir J. G. Laithwaite”, 24-10-1940 VOL. 80 : 28 DECEMBER, 1940 - 17 AUGUST, 1941 5 despair of Indian nationalists like me has been that British functionaries could not be persuaded to see the other side of the shield. And so the distance between them and nationalists is growing in spite of all efforts to the contrary. The present struggle is the latest attempt among many to induce the makers of the British Empire to see things through nationalist eyes. Such attempt must be continued till the truth is brought home to them. Why should they constitute themselves the judges of their work among and on us? The ordinary rule is that those should be the final judges who are the beneficiaries and not the self-styled benefactors.But I must not enter into the interminable discussion of a question on which the British rulers and we must for the present differ.
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