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Each paragraph should be 'wrapped' with p's --> <p>We do not know whom to congratulate most—Mr. Kallenbach for his highmindedness or the community for having received from Mr. Kallenbach an offer which may enable passive resisters to go through the struggle without undue pecuniary strain.<note type="scholarNote">Gandhi and many of his coresidents at his Phoenix Settlement community had begun protesting the Asiatic Registration Act in South Africa in 1908. By 1910, many of them, along with many other Indians in South Africa, had been imprisoned for nonviolent resistance against this act. This left many of the protestors' families in dire financial straits as the protestors were imprisoned. Gandhi and Kallenbach decided to found a new community, which became Tolstoy Farm, on this land on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to be closer to the law court and prison there.</note> The best thanks that can be rendered to Mr. Kallenbach would undoubtedly be for the passive resistance families to make use of the offer and to show to South Africa at large, by exemplary behaviour on the farm, how worthy they were of such handsome treatment.</p> <p>The terms of Mr. Kallenbach's letter are one-sided.<note type="scholarNote">In Transvaal Colony at this time, only white persons could own land, thus Gandhi could not purchase land himself near Johannesburg, and needed help from a white ally. Hermann Kallenbach stepped up and in this way became the co-founder of Gandhi's second community, which they called Tolstoy Farm.</note> He has given all he legitimately could and has expected no return. He does not want to develop his estate through the labour of those passive resisters who could put in their labour without paying them for it. Acts such as Mr. Kallenbach's are calculated to bring East and West nearer in real fellowship than any amount of rhetorical writing or speaking. We shall watch this experiment with very great interest.<note type="scholarNote">On this topic see also the correspondence between Gandhi and Kallenbach.</note></p> </div> </body> </text> </TEI>
