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 most innocent, If I may be allowed that claim, it is clear that I should not be followed to prison by any- body at all. We do want to paralyse the Government considered as a system, not however, by intimidation but by the irresistible pressure of our innocence. In my opinion it would be intimidation to fill the jails anyhow And why should more innocent men seek Jimprisonment till one considered to b3 the most (innocent has been found inadequate for the purpose.

My caution against further courtmg^of imprison- ment does not mean that we are now to shirk imprison- ment. If the Government will take away every non-viol- ent non-co-operator, I should welcome it. Only it should not be because of our civil disobedience, defensive or aggressive. Nor, I hope, will the country fret over those who are in jail. It will do them and the country good to serve the full term of their imprisonment. They can be fitly discharged before their time only by an act of the Swaraj Parliament. And I entertain an absolute conviction that universal adoption of khaddar is Swaraj.

I have refrained from mentioning untouchability, I am sure every good Hindu bsheves that it has got to go. Its removal is as necessary as the realisation of Hindu Muslim unity.

I have placed before you a programme which is in my opinion the quickest and the best. No impatient Khilafatist can devise a better. May God give you health and wisdom to guide the country to her destined goal,

I am, Yours Sincerely, (Sd) M. K. Gandhi.

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