"THE WILD VALLEY" OP BANNU 1Q1
small things, not big/ If we had worked the fourfold con-
structive programme In its completeness during the last
twenty years as I had envisaged it, we should have been
our masters today. No foreign power -would have dared
to cast its evil eye upon us. No enemy from outside would
have dared to come and do us harm if there had been
none within. Even if one had come we would have assi-
milated him to ourselves and he would not have been able
to exploit us.
" It is this type of non-violence/' he concluded, " that
I want you to attain. I expect you to be twenty-four-
carat gold, nothing less. Of course, you can deceive me.
If you do that, I shall blame myself only. But if you are
sincere, you have to prove by your action that nobody
need be afraid of a Red Shirt or know fear while there
is a Red Shirt alive/'