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MAHATMA GANDHI
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public opinion. Those who are fighting for the later are determined to submit to any violence rather than surrender their opinion.

THE WORKING COMMITTEE.

This outgoing Committee will meet for the last time under most trying circumstances. Of the fifteen members Deshabandu Das, Lala Lajpatrai, Pandit Motilal Nehru and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad who was just appointed at Delhi in the place of Maulana Mahomed Ali will be absent being his Majesty’s guests in some of those hotels called prisons. I therefore suggest that the provinces from which these patriots come should send one representative each a day earlier so that they may at least give the benefit of their advice to the Committee although they may not vote thereat. I would suggest to the other provinces also which are not directly represented on the Committee to send one representative each to guide the deliberation of the Committee.

ALL-INDIA CONGRESS COMMITTEE.

The eventful meeting of this Committee takes place on the 24th instant. On its decision will rest the future programme. Every member who can will, I hope, attend the meeting. Every member will be expected to give his own inde-