ABSTRACT
Gandhi’s name is sometimes connected with renunciation of the non-violent strategy in situations of massive repression and injustice. Gandhi’s writings, though decades old, are still a rich source of rebuttal to such misimpressions. His insight and analysis are as fresh today as they were when first published. On 1 September 1939, Hitler’s armies entered Poland from the West. Sixteen days later Soviet troops attacked from the East. The Poles had no hope of successful military resistance against such powerful invaders. Gandhi had radical differences with the Congress working Committee on the issue of defending the country from foreign invasion. In 1940 Gandhi repeatedly said that Hitlerism will never be defeated by counter-Hitlerism. At that moment in the history of India there were two major issues before Gandhi and his companies, independence from British rule, which had declared India a belligerent country without even consulting the Indian leadership, and a real danger of invasion of the country by the Japanese.
