date          1937, August 28

Place        Segaon

Source     MahatmaGandhi Research and Media Service

Author     M. Gandhi

Title          Extract from Letters by Gandhi to Hermann Kallenbach


 

 

 

 

EXTRACTS FROMLETTERS BY GANDHI TO HERMANN KALLENBACH

1937, August 28

 

 

Letter of August 28, 1937 from Segaon:

"... I have just read the monograph sent to me at your instance onZionism. The sender1s name is not given. The statement is very impressive,deeply interesting. And if it is true a settlement between the Jews & theArabs might not be difficult. I quite clearly see that if you are to play anypart in bringing about an honourable settlement, your place is in India. Itmight be that you might have to go at times to South Africa. You might have togo frequently to Palestine, but much of the work lies in India as I visualisethe development of the settlement talks. All this I say irrespective of thedomestic arrangement between us as to your coming in December...

"I am conferring with Andrews also as to what he should do in Palestine.But I have not the time to tell you all these things. ... the need to knowthem. It is enough for you toknow that I am redeemingmy promise to interestmyself in the movement."