Gandhi participated in forming the Indian Ambulance Corps in the South African war against the Boers, on the British side in 1899.[248] Both the Dutch settlers called Boers and the imperial British at that time discriminated against the coloured races
. He told the British people in 1940, "I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions...
George Orwell remarked that Gandhi's methods confronted "an old-fashioned and rather shaky despotism which treated him in a fairly chivalrous way", not a totalitarian power, "where political opponents simply disappear."[282]
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