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these countries? They could not run away. Even their food was being destroyed.
How would they survive? Who would defend them? Britain had surrendered its
responsibility.
Who would defend India? What would happen if people lost the will to defend?
The situation called for a drastic remedy. Britain might leave India and go as it
had left other countries, leaving people defenseless and hopeless.
India had to be taken out of this morass of helplessness and fear. No people can
become free or remain free without the will to resist. India should discover its
will to resist. Who can help the country to do this, without losing time? The
Congress and the country turned to Gandhi.
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