13 MARCH 1942, Page 14

INDIA AND MR. GANDHI

SIR,-Mr. Gandhi's views on Civil War in India may shock some of your readers, but he has made no secret of his hostility to the Moslems for many years.

Last summer his private secretary, M. Desai, published a life of the present President of the National Congress, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (with a foreword by Mr. Gandhi). Writing of Hindus and Moslems Mr. Gandhi is quoted as saying: " If it is to be our lot that we must shed each other's blood, then I say that the sooner