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Commissioned to write a 100,000-word book on India, Yeats-Brown gave himself six months to do it in, 20,000 miles by airplane, elephant, train, car, horse to gather his impressions. At the outset he confessed himself stumped by India's size (350,000,000 pop.), unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passage to India | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Bred in an atmosphere of tolerance and infused with the Emersonian doctrine of self-reliance, the student in Cambridge tends to build about himself a crustaccous shell, when it comes to participating in group agitation. Yet in a college where each member, student and faculty alike, is left free to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIFFERENCE | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

The neighboring States of Cochin and Mysore were expected to follow the lead of Travancore, but this lead went only a short way toward solving the problem of Untouchability. Travancore is a South Indian State of 5,000,000 total population, of whom 1,765,000 are Untouchables and, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVANCORE: Up Untouchables! | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

"Russia is the typical oligarchy, as it always was. The Communist Party is a privileged ruling caste. They are working towards the same thing in Germany. The S. S. men are being transformed into a caste of knights ruling 60 million natives. The dictatorships of Germany, Russia and Italy may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Scientist on Dictators | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Talk v. Action. Labor's crisis had been precipitated, though not caused by the action of John Lewis and his Committee in going over the heads of A. F. of L.'s Executive Council to begin an organization drive among the nation's historically unorganized steelworkers (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Goal Behind Steel | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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