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

THE BENGAL SITUATION 339
The result was not altogether hopeless. That the negotiations
then proved to be abortive was due entirely to the fact that
the Government did not comply with the request of the state
prisoners in Buxa Detention Camp that the negotiations
should be conducted directly with them and not through any
police-officer.
There are two conditions essential to the success of an
attempt of this sort. Firstly, the Government should really
be able to demonstrate by their own liberal policy that it is
possible for the Indians to win their political rights without
any resort to violence. If their policy, however, be to resist
for all time the Indian demand for freedom, then no under-
standing will ever be possible. Secondly, the Government
must see to it that those who are to give up revolutionary
methods, are given other opportunities for serving their
country along peaceful and constructive lines. Merely to find
some employment for them will not be enough. It is foolish
to suggest, as many have done in order to please the Govern-
ment, that middle-class unemployment is the cause of the
revolutionary movement. If that had been the case, well-to-do
people would never have been drawn into the movement.
But while it is true that middle-class unemployment is not
the cause of the revolutionary movement, it is of course true
that if opportunities for public service had been open to
young men in Bengal, then the attempts of the revolutionaries
to obtain recruits would have failed. The present temper and
policy of the Government whereby every young man is
regarded as a potential revolutionary and treated as such, and
the present conditions in the province, whereunder it is quite
hopeless to win Swaraj by working along constructive lines,
are among the most fruitful causes of the revolutionary
movement. Revolutionary methods are in their ultimate
analysis, an expression of utter despair. If this despair is once
removed, an understanding with the revolutionaries is
certainly possible. That will not mean that they will cease
to be patriots or that they will give up serving their country.
It will only mean that they will direct their activities along
other channels.
Whether an understanding could be reached in the near
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