without the force of arms should be able to keep it too
without the force of arms. This he said in spite of the
fact that- India had an army, a navy in the making and
an air force and these were being developed still further.
He was convinced that unless India developed her non-
violent strength, she had gained nothing either for her-
self or for the world. Militarization of India would mean
her own destruction as well as of the whole world. He
reminded the Burmese friends that they had got their
Buddhism too from India. He had come in touch with
their monks. Let Burma take the best of Buddhism
from India. In his opinion, the quality of the original
had suffered from migration. He wanted Burma and
Ceylon to rise to their highest heights. This they could
do only by copying its best from India and omitting
its obvious shortcomings.

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5-12-'47
MUSLIM WITHDRAWAL
Gandhiji remarked in his post-prayer speech this
evening that he could not read and give a reply to the
letters,, which were given to him as he came to the prayer
ground, there and then. He could only do so the fol-
lowing day if a reply was necessary. In one of the letters
the writer had referred to Gandhlji's conversation with
Liaquatsaheb and said that what Liaquatsaheb had
told Gandhiji about Kathiawad was found to be untrue.
The friend had obviously not followed his subsequent
speeches. He had ^poken of Shri Shamaldas Gandhi's
telegram wherein he had admitted what had-happened
and contradicted the very gross exaggerations. That very
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