The Danish Peace Academy
GANDHI AND NORDIC COUNTRIES
Edited by E. S. Reddy - EReddy@aol.com and Holger Terp
SILENCE DAY NOTES TO STEN KONOW, MARCH 2, 1925
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I am sorry that I am silent. But you can say what you wish to. I will answer by writing. I am very busy editing Young India - but I will spare a few minutes.1
Influence of Charkha
It is not so much the individual I have in view as the nation. The effect of spinning on the individual may be imperceptible but its effect on the nation will be very considerable even as the work of a single soldier plodding at a trench may be nothing, but the cumulative effect of thousands working at it may turn the scale.
Position of Browbeating Section of Independents
They threaten to take a leading part. But they will not succeed. India’s heart is not that way. What you have seen of brutality is, I hope, confined to a very narrow group.
Possibility of Amicable Settlement with England
Certainly there is every possibility. I am working to that end. But the thing largely depends upon English conduct as a whole.
Notes
From: CW 5993 (courtesy George Morgenstierne); Collected Works, Volume 26, pages 212-13
1 These notes were written by Gandhiji in reply to Konow’s questions. The sub-headings are in someone else’s hand. The date was provided by Mr. Konow.
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