"ALL HAVE SINNED." SAYS MR. GANDHI
Received Wednesday, 7.o0 p.m. LOXDOX, Jan. 14. Indian Cabinet Aiiiusters and others yesterday tried to get Mr. Gandhi to discontinue his fast but he is aduinant, says The Times Delhi correspondent, and at his customary prayer meeting in Ihe evening he repeated that he was wilJing to do or die in the cause of Iiindu-Moslem /aniity. In a homily against comnmnal intolerance, he said that neitlier Hindus, Sikhs nor Moslems wero wholly blaiueless. All had sinned and he wished to take their sins upon iiimself. Ile had undertaken this fast not to please or annoy anyone liut in respon.se to his t'onscienee, and it would md when he saw Hindus, Bikhs and Moslems mixing lilce brothers withont fear. "If I do not survive this fast/' he added, "the responsibility will be mine. " indian newspapers all refleet tlre anxiety of the people at Mr. Gandhi 's eoming ordeal and urge everyone to show a cbange of heart, thus obviating the need for the fast. Yesterday Mr, Gandhi sipped only water.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1948, Page 5
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