As at Wardha,
C.P.,
India,
23-7-'39
Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity.
But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any
letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I
must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it
may be worth.
It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who
can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must
you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you
to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned
the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate
your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.
I remain,
Your sincere friend,
M. K. GANDHI
HERR HITLER,
BERLIN,
GERMANY
From a photostat: S.N. 23126