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 weathered many a storm. I may fail in achieving any of the ends. I can but attempt. God alone can grant success. It will not be denied that the ends are all worthy. I invite Hindus and Englishmen to join me in a full-hearted man- ner in shouldering the burden the Mjhomedans of India are carrying. Their is admittedly a just fight. The Viceroy, the Secretary of State, the Maharaja, of Bikaner and Lord Sinha have testified to it. Time has arrived to make good the testimony. People with a just cause are never satisfied with a mere protest. They have been known to die for it. Are a high-spirited people, the Mahomedans, expected to do less?

��OPEN LETTER TO LORD CHELMSFORD.

[The Turkish Peace Treaty was handed to the Ottoman Delega- tion on the llth May 1920 at Paris and the terms of that treaty were published in India on the 14th with a message from H. E. the Viceroy to the Muslim people of India. According to the proposals Turkey was to be dismembered and Constantinople alone was saved for the Sultan to whom only a fringe of territory was conceded for the defence of his Capital. The actual terms were a total violation of the promises (Lloyd George's pledge) not to de- prive Turkey "of the rich and renowned lands of Asia Minor and Thrace." In reply to the Viceroy's massage of sympathy. Mr. Gandhi invited His Excellency to lead the agitation:]

Your Excellency, As one who has enjoyed a certain measure of your Excellency's confidence and as one who claims to be a devoted well-wisher of the British Empire, I owe it to your Excellency, and through your Excellenry to His Majesty's ministers, to explain my connection with and my conduct in the Khilafat question.

At the very earliest stage of the war, even while I was tn London organising th Indian Volunteer Ambulance

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