Rommel, Jon

Letter, March 2, 1933¹⁴¹

[Mr. Rommel, apparently a believer in the Occult, wrote to Gandhiji in prison on January 16, 1933, asking him not to start another fast, criticising his mode of dress, etc. "I was born... of German parents who in earth life attended the Protestant Christian Church; but I, as a free thinker and reasoner, could not stomach a son of god monstrosity. I am a pure vegetarian, abstaining from eating any living moving creature, or their byproducts, which is strictly prohibited by the inhabitants of the planets Venus and Mercury." He sent a copy of his book, Regeneration, to Gandhiji and asked him "to read it carefully several times."¹⁴²]

Dear friend,
I thank you for your letter and your book called Regeneration. I glanced through the pages, but I must confess to you that I found in it nothing to appeal to me.