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 548 NON-CO-OPERATION

I now come to Swadeshi. The boycott of foreign goods is iucluded in the icsolution. You have got here, I confess, an anomaly for which I am not originally respon- sible. But I have consented to it. I will not go into the history of how it found a place into the resolution, ot which, the essence is discipline and self-sacrifice. Swadeshi means permanent boycott of foreign^ goods. It is therefore a matter of redundancy. But I have taken it in, because I could not reject it as a matter of conscience. I know, how- ever, it is a physical impossibility. So long as we have to rely on the pins and needles figurative and literal both we cannot bring about a complete boycott of foreign goods. I do not hesitate to say this clause mars the musical har- mony, if I may claim u \\ithout vanity, of the programme. - I feel that those woids do mar the symmetry of the pro- gramme. But I am not here tor symmetry of the pro- gramme as for its workability.

I again ask you not to be influenced by personality, Reject out of your consideration any service that I have done. Two things only I claim. Laborious industry, great thought behind any programme, and unflinching deter- mination to bring it abcut. You may take only those things from me, and bring them to bear on any programme that you adopt.

��SWARAJ IN ONE YEAR.

[Since the Special Congress at Calcutta, Mr. Gandhi constantly referred to the possibility of obtaining Swaraj,in one year. The period was extended to the end of Dec. 1921 and Mr. Gandhi, in his writings and speeches during this period, spoke and wrote with the fervour of faith. Even in the last week of December he never showed any wavering of faith. In reply to his critics who could not believe in the practicability of achieving Swaraj inside the year, Mr. Gandhi wrote in Young India in October, 1920 :]

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