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Nowadays We Are Assailed By A Chorus Of Horrid Threats. The Nazi Government Exudes Through Every Neutral State Inside Information Of The Frightful Vengeance They Are Going To Wreak Upon Us, And They Also Bawl It Around The World By Their Leather-lunged Propaganda Machine. If Words Could Kill, We Should Be Dead Already.

May There Not Be Methods Of Using Explosive Energy Incomparably More Intense Than Anything Heretofore Discovered? Might Not A Bomb No Bigger Than An Orange Be Found To Possess A Secret Power To Destroy A Whole Block Of Buildings-nay, To Concentrate The Force Of A Thousand Tons Of Cordite And Blast A Township At A Stroke? Could Not Explosives Even Of The Existing Type Be Guided Automatically In Flying Machines By Wireless Or Other Rays, Without A Human Pilot, In Ceaseless Procession Upon A Hostile City, Arsenal, Camp Or Dockyard?

I Shall Endeavor To Marshal British Opinion Against A Course Of Action Which Would Bring In My Opinion The Greatest Evils Upon The People Of India, Upon The People Of Great Britain And Upon The British Empire Itself.

There Are Plenty Of Good Ideas, If Only They Can Be Backed With The Power Of Action.

If One Has To Submit, It Is Wasteful Not To Do So With The Best Grace Possible.