The
Three Monkeys (1930)
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The Daily
Express accused Gandhi of failing to recognize that the civil
disobedience movement launched in 1930 had led to mass violence in
various parts of the country. It was in the forefront of the demand that
the severest measures possible be taken to crush the movement. Irwin
rejected this demand, saying :"However emphatically we may condemn the
civil disobedience movement, we should, I am satisfied, make a profound
mistake if we underestimate the genuine and powerful meaning of
nationalism that is today animating much of Indian thought, and for this
no complete or permanent cure has ever been or ever will be found in
strong" action by the Government.
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