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 746 ON THE EVE OF ARREST

are a symbol of kinship between the members of both the communities with the hunger and disease- stricken poor. It is by virtue of the fact that our movement can to-day be described as moral and economic as well as political. So long as we cannot achieve this little thing, 1 feel certain success is impossible. Again the khaddar movement can succee d only when we recognise nbn-violence as an essential condition for the attainment of Swaraj and Khilafat both. Therefore the khaddar programme is the only effective and successful programme that I can place before the country at present. I was so glad when you told me that you would begin to spin regularly when I be arrested. I, can only say that every man, woman and child ought to spin as a religious duty till a complete and permanent boycott of foreign cloth is effected, the Khilafat and Punjab wrongs satisfactorily redressed and the Swaraj attained. May I entreat you to use all your influence for popularising Charkha among your Muslim brethren.

��MESSAGE TO THE PARSIS.

��v [Mr. Gandhi addressed the following message to the Parsees from the Sabarmati Jail through Mr. B.F. Bharucha : ]

How can I forget to write to you ? Please tell my Parsee sisters and brothers nsver to lose faith in this movement. It is impossible for me to give up my confidence in them. There is no other programme before me than that of khadi and charkha, charkha and khadi. Hand-spun yarn must be as current among us as are small coins. To attain this object we can put on no other cloth than hand-spun and hand-woven khad

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