11-13-2008, 02:45 PM
Alright, here was the P C Joshi's letter, to be read between the above two:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LETTER FROM P. C. JOSHI1
BOMBAY,
June 14, 1944
DEAR GANDHIJI,
Your small chit came as a pleasant surprise that you were so eager to know
more about us. . . .
I am answering your points in a very brief manner. . . .
1. People in peopleâs war means all peoples the world over without exception.
It, of course, includes Indiaâs millions and also the Negroes wherever they be. . . .
This war has split the world into two camps. On the one side . . . Fascists are fighting
the war for the imperialist domination of the world. . . . On the other side are the
freedom-loving peoples of the world. . . the camp of freedom and democracy. . .
fighting Fascism is the only path of national liberation from imperialist domination
for us today. . . . The more we unite our patriotic parties, the weaker and more isolated
becomes the alien Government and the more irresistible our national and other
demands, the greater our capacity to save and serve our people. The more our patriotic
parties engage themselves in those tasks which any war-time government should
successfully lead, but an alien Government cannot, the more speedily we get the
united intervention of all the peoples of the world behind our national demand for
national government in the common interest of fighting the common enemy.
2. If you desire to examine the accounts personally, they will present
themselves with all the registers where and when you desire. If you decide to appoint a
representative, he should besuch whom we also know to be an honest man and
notalready prejudiced against us. You will not find our accounts as well kept as by a
commercial firm but I am sure you will give us a pass. . . . You will find some
anonymous donors, but I believe that you also accept anonymous donors. But to
dispel any suspicion that âanonymousâ may be code for Government cash, I am
prepared to give you (not your representative) the names. . . .
If you have yet any doubts left and in any case, I give you some references. . .
. Iftikharuddin and his Begum, Shaukat Ansari and Zohra, N. M. Joshi. You can ask
Dr. and Mrs. Subbaroyan as to what they think is going to happen to their property
when Mohan and Parvati (their children and our comrades) get it, and in fact what they
know happens to the property of the whole-time workers of the party. . . .
3. I know it is easy enough to make such a vile charge but very difficult to
prove it. . . . Firstly, I believe, if you find that we are not paid by the Government,
you will easily believe that we are not likely to hand over labour leaders to the police.
Secondly, our party, except in Ahmedabad and Jamshedpur, is as much the
unquestioned leader of the working class as the great Congress is of the Indian people
as a whole. . . . We gave up our strike policy because we considered it anti-national in
the conditions of today, aiding the Jap aggressors on the one hand and intensifying
the economic crisis for our own people on the other. That we successfully prevented
the Indian working class from resorting to strikes even in a period of their worsening
material conditions is the measure not only of our influence over it but its capacity to
understand national interests as its own.
4. There is no question of our âadopting the policy of infiltrating the
Congress organizationâ. We have been in the Congress ever since we were born as a
party. . . . Whether our intent is hostile or not, it is for our fellow Congressmen to
judge and for us to prove otherwise through our practice. . . . We are inside the
Congress on our right, as patriotic sons and daughters of the people who join the
common national organization, so that we may be able to fight our hardest and best
in realization of the common goal of national emancipation and no slanders can ever
provoke us to give up this stand and forgo the glorious privilege.
5. The Communist Party decides its own policy as it understands the interests
of its own people and of the peoples of the world. As long as the Communist
International was there, we were dubbed as âMoscow Agentsâ. It is rather surprising
to come across the same insinuation even after its dissolution. . . . The Communist
Party is one great revolutionary brotherhood. It exists in every country of the world.
All have the same ideology and are moved by the common aims of fighting for the
liberation of their own and all peoples. I can send you the journals and documents of the
Communist Parties of Britain, U.S.A., South Africa, Australia, which have nailed down
Amery & Co. as slanderers and provocateurs after August 9 and which have
unfalteringly demanded the release of the Congress leaders and settlement with India
on the basis of a real national government. . . .
P. C. JOSHI<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
To the Point # 2, I wish Gandhiji persisted in seeing the accounts. Metrokhin Archives has exposed CPI, including pre-independence funding of CPI by Moscow.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LETTER FROM P. C. JOSHI1
BOMBAY,
June 14, 1944
DEAR GANDHIJI,
Your small chit came as a pleasant surprise that you were so eager to know
more about us. . . .
I am answering your points in a very brief manner. . . .
1. People in peopleâs war means all peoples the world over without exception.
It, of course, includes Indiaâs millions and also the Negroes wherever they be. . . .
This war has split the world into two camps. On the one side . . . Fascists are fighting
the war for the imperialist domination of the world. . . . On the other side are the
freedom-loving peoples of the world. . . the camp of freedom and democracy. . .
fighting Fascism is the only path of national liberation from imperialist domination
for us today. . . . The more we unite our patriotic parties, the weaker and more isolated
becomes the alien Government and the more irresistible our national and other
demands, the greater our capacity to save and serve our people. The more our patriotic
parties engage themselves in those tasks which any war-time government should
successfully lead, but an alien Government cannot, the more speedily we get the
united intervention of all the peoples of the world behind our national demand for
national government in the common interest of fighting the common enemy.
2. If you desire to examine the accounts personally, they will present
themselves with all the registers where and when you desire. If you decide to appoint a
representative, he should besuch whom we also know to be an honest man and
notalready prejudiced against us. You will not find our accounts as well kept as by a
commercial firm but I am sure you will give us a pass. . . . You will find some
anonymous donors, but I believe that you also accept anonymous donors. But to
dispel any suspicion that âanonymousâ may be code for Government cash, I am
prepared to give you (not your representative) the names. . . .
If you have yet any doubts left and in any case, I give you some references. . .
. Iftikharuddin and his Begum, Shaukat Ansari and Zohra, N. M. Joshi. You can ask
Dr. and Mrs. Subbaroyan as to what they think is going to happen to their property
when Mohan and Parvati (their children and our comrades) get it, and in fact what they
know happens to the property of the whole-time workers of the party. . . .
3. I know it is easy enough to make such a vile charge but very difficult to
prove it. . . . Firstly, I believe, if you find that we are not paid by the Government,
you will easily believe that we are not likely to hand over labour leaders to the police.
Secondly, our party, except in Ahmedabad and Jamshedpur, is as much the
unquestioned leader of the working class as the great Congress is of the Indian people
as a whole. . . . We gave up our strike policy because we considered it anti-national in
the conditions of today, aiding the Jap aggressors on the one hand and intensifying
the economic crisis for our own people on the other. That we successfully prevented
the Indian working class from resorting to strikes even in a period of their worsening
material conditions is the measure not only of our influence over it but its capacity to
understand national interests as its own.
4. There is no question of our âadopting the policy of infiltrating the
Congress organizationâ. We have been in the Congress ever since we were born as a
party. . . . Whether our intent is hostile or not, it is for our fellow Congressmen to
judge and for us to prove otherwise through our practice. . . . We are inside the
Congress on our right, as patriotic sons and daughters of the people who join the
common national organization, so that we may be able to fight our hardest and best
in realization of the common goal of national emancipation and no slanders can ever
provoke us to give up this stand and forgo the glorious privilege.
5. The Communist Party decides its own policy as it understands the interests
of its own people and of the peoples of the world. As long as the Communist
International was there, we were dubbed as âMoscow Agentsâ. It is rather surprising
to come across the same insinuation even after its dissolution. . . . The Communist
Party is one great revolutionary brotherhood. It exists in every country of the world.
All have the same ideology and are moved by the common aims of fighting for the
liberation of their own and all peoples. I can send you the journals and documents of the
Communist Parties of Britain, U.S.A., South Africa, Australia, which have nailed down
Amery & Co. as slanderers and provocateurs after August 9 and which have
unfalteringly demanded the release of the Congress leaders and settlement with India
on the basis of a real national government. . . .
P. C. JOSHI<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
To the Point # 2, I wish Gandhiji persisted in seeing the accounts. Metrokhin Archives has exposed CPI, including pre-independence funding of CPI by Moscow.