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 710 NON-CO-OPERATION

ever be bound to the Congress. Social Service Depart- ment, if it becomes a live thing, will restore the strained relations that exist to-day among co-operators- (whether Indian of English) and non-co-operators. To- work the full constructive programme therefore is to- achieve all we want. To fail in fulfilling the programme is to postpone all possibitity of effective civil disobedience.

Several Mwssulman friends have said, u Your programme is good lor Swaraj but it is too slow to be- good enough for saving the Khilafat. The Khilafat question will be solved in a few months and whatever can be done must be done now." Let us examine the question. The cause of the Khilafat, thank God, is safe in the hands of Gazi Mustafa Kamal Pasha, He has retrieved the prestige of the Khilafat as no* Mussalrnan of modern times has done. India has in my opinion helped not mucii by her money though that has meant something, but by Hindu-Muslim unity and by telling the Government in the plainest terms possible that India will have nothing to do with the Govern- persists in her anti-Turk policy and exploits India's .resources against the Turks. The greater the strength in that declaration the greater becomes the prestige of Islam and the greater the power of Mustafa Kamal Pasha. Some people think that mere temporary enbarrassment of the Government by a few thousand men, irrespective of qualification, going to jail, will make the Government yield to our wishes. Let us not underrate the power of the Government. I am sure that the Government does possess as yet the power to crush the spirit of violence. And it is nothing but

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