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Then, with his arms round the shoulders of his grandnieces Ava and Manu, the knobby brown man shuffled weakly down the red sandstone pathway leading from Birla House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today...
...crowds increased daily about the home of wealthy C. D. Birla, where Gandhi lay. Attendance boomed at his evening prayer services. On the third day, he was too weak to walk the 100 yards from the palatial Birla House to his prayer service, and he addressed the meeting through a loudspeaker from his bed. Physicians reported that he was weakening, hour by hour; his kidneys were not functioning properly. He sipped hot water apathetically...
Patel's closest friend is probably Ghanshyam Das Birla, jute and cotton magnate, who boycotts his own textile mills by wearing khadi (homespun).* Though Birla dotes on Gandhi, he dreams of an industrialized India. (Birla has contracts with Britain's Nuffield for an India-assembled automobile called the Hindustan Ten.) India's liberals and leftists are stridently suspicious of Patel's friendship with Birla and the other big industrialists, but Birla insists that he seeks no Government favors. Says he: "I already have all the money I need...
Wrote good Friend Birla to great Friend Gandhi: "I am very much pained. . . . The industrial delegation is going purely as a nonofficial body at its own expense ... to study the latest methods of production. ... I count on your blessing and prayer...
...Britain will play a big part in India's industrialization. Her amiable automobile tycoon, Lord Nuffield, is now planning to make cars in India. The wealthy Birla Brothers would raise the capital of ?3,500,000 (about $14,000,000), Nuffield would supply the technicians and equipment. The new car will be called the Hindustan...