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Thus on Dec. 30, when Mr. Gandhi and Congress leaders are scheduled to meet in Allahabad to determine the Congress' future policy (possibly resumption of the Gandhite "passive resistance" boycott of British goods), they will find themselves branded in a large section of the British Press as arrant Reds...
...Vaulx* was a Ford tri-motor equipped with kitchen and bed, loaned them by King Carol. Their purpose: ostensibly to hunt big game; actually to compile a first-hand report on the redtape of international flying for presentation at the next meeting of the Federation. As the plane approached Allahabad, India last week a vulture flew into one of the propellers. About two hours later the propeller developed trouble, the pilot made a forced landing, the plane ran into a ditch, burned up. All four occupants escaped death but were severely injured...
...later engaged in journalism and for several years was a writer in the English Press, contributing to such periodicals as the "New Statesman," "Contemporary Review," and the "Asiatic Quarterly." In India he achieved eminence as Associate Editor and Editor-in-chief of the "Bombay Chronicle," and the "Independent" of Allahabad. In these capacities he gained an influential position as a publicist due to his grasp of public affairs and outstanding oratorical abilities. In 1920 he was one of the three delegates elected by the people of India to present the Indian case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. Upon...
...hundred thousand Indians surrounded the funeral pyre of Martyr Motilal Nehru when it was presently set up at Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and the Holy River Ganges. The calm and temperate dead man's fiery and reckless son, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus Gandhi when the pyre was lighted. "I said to him not long before he died," Gandhi told the multitude, " 'My dear friend, we will surely win home rule, if you survive this crisis.' "He replied, 'Why, you've already won home rule!' ': In the excitement...
...That savage elephants are sobered, (so at least I have been told) By a camel's bitter biting of their thin ears flapping fold. Once from Agra and from Oudh, all the people came to feast And to stand in glamorous gazing at grandees from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung...