THE INDIAN SITUATION
SIR,—From Mr. Amery's speech in the recent debate on India I learn that Mr. Gandhi is allowed to see newspapers, though not to communi- cate with friends. I withdraw therefore my statement that he had no knowledge at all of what was happening outside his place of detention. The fact that he has some knowledge, however little—for the Press cen- sorship in India is exceedingly rigid and narrow—leaves me still more perplexed about his attitude towards the use of violence by some who profess to be his supporters in the " civil disobedience " campaign, but it does not lessen the urgent desire, which I share with so many other Englishmen and women, that Mr. Gandhi should be released from deten- tion and asked to enter into discussion with the leaders of other parties.—
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