 But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses.… Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance.… They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole.… It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.During the mid-1930s, Nehru was much concerned with developments in Europe, which seemed to be drifting toward another world war.He was in Europe in early 1936, visiting his ailing wife, shortly before she died in a sanitarium in Switzerland.