Unpredictable Mohandas Gandhi last week was full of advice, practical and impractical, violent and nonviolent, for his disciples. Items:
On Moslem-Hindu riots: The army ought "only to be used for maintaining cleanliness, cultivating unused land and the like," the police "only to catch bona fide thieves." The most effective way to stop religious fights, he suggested, "is that one of the parties to mutual slaughter should desist."
On the future of an independent India: "Every village has to be self-sustained and capable of managing its affairs, even to the extent of defending itself against the whole world. . . . In this...