"I would submit too to our distinguished countrymen who occupy high offices that their giving up their offices will bring the struggle to a speedy end and would probably obviate the danger attendant upon the masses... If the title-holders gave up their titles... holders of honorary offices... their appointments and... high officials... their posts, and... would-be councillors boycott the councils, the Government would quickly come to its senses and give effect to the people’s will. For, the alternative... would be... despotic rule... probably... military dictatorship. The world’s opinion has advanced so far that Britain dare not contemplate such dictatorship with equanimity. The taking of the steps suggested by me will constitute the peacefullest revolution the world has ever seen. Once the of Non-co-operation is realised, there is an end to all bloodshed and violence..."