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 bring about the ruin of the country. If both parties start mth this assumption, if both are wilhng to accept the existence of difference of opinions as inevitable, and as constituting a healthy sign in the body poUtic, there would be less room for misunderstandings. Both the parties should realise that only in Unity there is safety and that this unity they have to keep in spite of acute differences of opinion. Neither should try to stamp out the other and both should, while exerting their utmost to get the upper hand in the National assemblies conducted by the united efforts of the Moderates and the Nationalists, never abuse their supremacy by trying to crush or cripple their opponents in the other party. The Moderates should remember that it is because the New Party has come into existence that the Bureaucracy condescends to " rally " themo The Nationahsts must understand that though the caution and hesitation of the Moderates is often galling to them, still their influence and prestige is not to be despised. If these are the advantages, which one gets from the other, there are some inevitable disadvantages also. The Nationahsts have generally to bear the brunt of poUtical fight, but the rewards of the poUtical warfare go invariably to the Moderates. By their association with the Nationalists, the Moderates do sometime receive official taunts and frowns. When taken to taskp the Moderates must however poiut-black tell the authorities that though they differ in many important res- pects from the * Extremists *, still, so long as the latter are willing to co-operate with them, they would not part company. True, some of the Nationahsts have set up " Independence " as the ultimate goal of theht