TIT FOR TAT?
In a discussion with some friends Gandhiji was
told that much improvement was not to be expected
in the Indian Union unless there was abatement of
the corresponding nuisance in Pakistan. What had
appeared in the papers about Lahore was cited as an
instance. He himself never swore by newspaper reports
and would warn readers of newspapers not to be easily
affected by stories reported therein. Not even the best
of them were free from exaggeration and embellishment.
But supposing that what they read in the papers was true,
even then a bad example was never a pattern to follow.
PLEA FOR RIGHT CONDUCT
Imagine, he said, a rectangular frame without a
slate. The slightest rough handling of the frame would
turn the right angles into acute and obtuse angles and
if the frame was again rightly handled at one corner
the other three would be automatically turned into
right angles. Similarly, if there was right conduct on
the part of the Government and the people in the
Indian Union, he had not a shadow of a doubt that
Pakistan would respond and the whole of India would
return to sanity. Let the reported ill-treatment of the
Christians against whom, so far as he knew, there was
no charge, be an indication that insanity must not be
allowed to go further and that it should be promptly
and radicaUy dealt with if India was to give a good
account of herself to the world.
CO-OPERATION AMONG REFUGEES
Gandhiji then referred to the refugee problem.
There were among them doctors, lawyers, students,
teachers, nurses etc. If they tore themselves away from
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