When I read your speech given at Madras it struck me that it should be printed as a pamphlet in English, Tamil, Hindustani and all the most used languages and then spread to every nook and corner of India.

The non-co-operation movement once started must be worked so as to become successful.  If it is not, I dread to think of the consequences.  But you cannot expect it to win in a day or two.  It must take time and you will not despair if you do not reach your goal in a hurry.  For those who have faith there is no haste.

Now for the withdrawal of the children and students from Government schools, I think, it a most important step.  Taking the Government help (even if it be your money they pay you back), we must submit to its scheme, its rules and regulation.  India and we who love her have come to the conclusion that the education the foreign Government has given you is not healthy for India and can certainly never make for her real growth.  This movement would lead to a spontaneous rise of national schools.  Let them be a few but let them spring up through self-sacrifice.  Only by indigenous education can India be truly uplifted.  Why this appeals so much to me is perhaps because I belong to the part of the Danish people who started their own independent, indigenous national schools.  The Danish Free Schools and Folk-High-Schools, of which you may have heard, were started against the opposition and persecution of the State.  The organisers won and thus have regenerated the nation.  With my truly heartfelt thanks and prayers for you.

I am,
Your sincerely,
Anne Marie.

HOW TO WORK NON-CO-OPERATION

Perhaps the best way of answering the fears and criticism as to non-co-operation is to elaborate more fully the scheme of non-co-operation.  The critics seem to imagine that the organisers propose to give effect to the whole scheme at once.  The fact however is that the organisers have fixed definite, progressive four stages.  The first is the giving up of titles and resignation of honorary posts.  If there is no response or if the response received is not effective, recourse will be had to the second stage.  The second stage involves much previous arrangement.  Certainly not a single servant will be called out unless he is either capable of supporting himself and his dependents or the Khilafat Committee is able to bear the burden.  All the classes of servants will not be called out at once and never will any pressure be put upon a single servant to withdraw himself from the Government service.  Nor will a single private employee be touched for the simple reason that the movement is not anti-English.  It is not even anti-Government.  Co-operation is to be withdrawn because the people must not be party to a wrong—­a broken pledge—­a violation of deep religious sentiment.  Naturally, the movement will receive a check, if there is any undue influence brought to