January 15, 1920.
Dear Sir:
We are enclosing for your serious consideration, a document of facts about conditions in India.
The cause of India is now an American cause, your cause, a challenge to every champion of human freedom. It is a challenge not only to your idealism, but an appeal to your national self-interest. The world will face tomorrow a young India, burning with the horrors inflicted upon her by British Imperialism and its arrogant and tyrannical domination.
Will India, and Asia as a whole, be forced to adopt the militarism of the western world to gain freedom? Or are you willing to help them get it otherwise?
Some of the advance guards of New India are in America today. They are political refugees and exiles. The traditional right of asylum is being denied them in America. They are hounded by the British Secret Police, prosecuted; five of them are scheduled for deportation.
Deportation to India means for these young Indians execution or life-imprisonment; for us it means the surrender to Great Britain of our sovereignty as an American people.
The Friends of Freedom for India was formed to protect these men in their right of asylum in the United States, and to afford them support in making known to the world the true state of affairs in their home land.
To carry on this work we need money -- for legal expenses, and for publicity. We need your financial and moral support. Sustaining membership in this organization is $5.00 a year. Contributions of $1.00 or more enrolls you as one of our contributors.
You are urged to join with us in the struggle to free these young men and to present the truth about India's struggle for independence, which has forced them into this country.
Won't you sign the enclosed card and return to us?
Sincerely,
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