to frenzied fury--a fury which nobody, as
I have already said, has condemned more than I have. The account of the
following days is summed up in one word, _viz._ 'peace' on the part of
the crowd disturbed by indiscriminate arrests, the massacre and the
series of official crimes that followed.

I am prepared to give Mr. Pennington credit for seeking after the truth.
But he has gone about it in the wrong manner. I suggest his reading the
evidence before the Hunter Committee and the Congress Committee. He need
not read the reports. But the evidence will convince him that I have
understated the case against General Dyer.

When however I read his description of himself as "for 12 years Chief
Magistrate of Districts in the South of India before reform, by
assassination and otherwise, became so fashionable." I despair of his
being able to find the truth. An angry or a biased man renders himself
incapable of finding it. And Mr. Pennington is evidently both angry and
biased. What does he mean by saying, "before reform by assassination and
otherwise became so fashionable?" It ill becomes him to talk of
assassination when the school of assassination seems happily to have
become extinct. Englishmen will never see the truth so long as they
permit their vision to be blinded by arrogant assumption of superiority
or ignorant assumptions of infallibility.

MR. PENNINGTON'S LETTER TO MR. GANDHI

Dear Sir,

I do not like your scheme for "boycotting" the Government of India
under what seems to be the somewhat less offensive (though more
cumbrous) name of non-co-operation; but have always given you credit
for a genuine desire to carry out revolution by peaceful means and am
astonished at the violence of the language you use in describing
General Dyer on page 4 of your issue of the 14th July last. You begin
by saying that he is "by no means the worst offender," and, so far, I
am inclined to agree, though as there has been no proper trial of
anyone it is impossible to apportion their guilt; but then you say
"his brutality is unmistakable," "his abject and unsoldierlike
cowardice is apparent, he has called an _unarmed crowd_ of men and
children--mostly holiday makers--a rebel army." "He believes himself
to be the saviour of the Punjab in that he was able to shoot down
like rabbits men who were _penned_ in an enclosure; such a man is
unworthy to be considered a soldier. There was no bravery