द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

132 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE
Party with the Sinn Fein Party of Ireland and remarked that
during forty years of its existence, it had seen nothing
like it before. The discipline of the Party, according to the
paper, was German in character. The weakening of the
Swaraj Party served to strengthen the forces of reaction in
India and in England, while it let loose a flood of communal
strife in India which had, up till then, been held back by the
superior forces of Nationalism. To-day, as we look back on
the year 1925, we cannot help feeling that if Providence had
spared the Deshbandhu for a few years more, the history of
India would probably have taken a different turn. In the
affairs of nations, it often happens that the appearance or dis-
appearance of a single personality often means a new chapter
in history. Thus has been the influence of Lenin in Russia,
of Mussolini in Italy and of Hitler in Germany in recent
world-history.