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 and other demonstrations follow as a matter of >onr?e * Mr. Gandhi wns explicit : ]

I would ask the public who are interested in the Khilafat or Swaraj, religiously to refrain from all demonstrations over the arrest or imprisonment of e\ en their dearest leaders. I would hold it no honour to ir.a for the public (o proclaim a hartal or hold meetings if I was arrested or Maulana Shankat All for that matter. I would welcome and expect in any *urh event a com* pletc immediate boycott of all foreign cloth, a n: ~,re energetic adoption oi the spinning whrel, n mou 1 vigo- rous collection on behalf of the Tilak Swjiraj Fund and a flooding of Congress offices for registration as mem- bers. I would certainly expect the emptying of Go\ ern- ment schools and colleges and more suspensions of practice by lawyers. Killing officers and burning buj id ings will not only retard the advent of Swaraj ami the righting of the Khilafat and the Punjab wrongs, but air likely to lead to utter demoralisation of the nauor. We must therefore scrupulously avoid all Dccasicns winch would excite the passions of the mo!) cuU k\ul them into undesirable or criminal conduct.

THE SIMLA VISIT

[Soo// after Lord Reading arrived $,> Indt (, ah interview was arranged by Pandit Malaviya bet^ec- tJ'e new Viceroy and Mr. Gandhi. The interview, whiih lasted many hours, took place at Simla in May 19 Jl. Much speculation was rife as to the result of the inter- view and Mr. Gandhi explained the circnmstaiices and the results of the interview in an article in Young India under the title " The Simla Visit. 9 '

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