The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld.

: 1933 - 1954), Tuesday 7 April 1942, page 2

Gandhi
Australian.

Still

Opposes War
LONDON,
the Indian
the oppose in face 'The

April 6. Gandhi, leader, continues to use of violence even

of Australians are a young and vigorous people, a race of brave and fighters,' he men wonderful told the Daily New Telegraph's 'but I be Delhi correspondent, lieve the bravest thing of all is to resist war and all vio to oppose lence.' Referring to the Congress Party still leaders, he said: 'They are
my
see

friends, though they do not on the sub eye to eye with me ject of non-violence and anti-war. is to their That not discredit. it is Rather fault that I failed my to convince them. 'If I failed to convince these who are my friends, how can men, I carry conviction to the millions of people in India?'

'Let Japs Land'

hot surrender India. I the Japanese land and fight them with non-violence,' told the New Delhi cor Gandhi respondent of the Daily Express. if the Indians 'Even were bet ter armed I still would not fight. to destroy the Jap I do not want
'I would let would
anese.

'

'If the Chinese had not opposed the but had Japanese, merely nor stood by, neither raising arms

but simply re destroying crops, co-operating with fraining from the Japanese, the Japanese would have been defeated. 'This, carried to the logical end, of meant the death might have last Chinese, the but I do not to that.' come think it would

China's Role
Sun Po (president of the Dr. Legislative Yuan), contributing to New the Communist newspaper, China, in Chungking, said China must assume the leadership- of the Asiatic the of emancipation peoples. He predicted that all the from would be driven Japanese within two the Asiatic mainland
'

years.

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