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Gandhi's "soul force", which appeared to be the secret of his extraordinary influence, might be described at the risk of seeming pedantic as "non violent coercion by methods of nonparticipation." Briefly, he wished to free India from foreign domination, and to bring this about he initiated his famous triple boycott, urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine...
...Premier Bonomi, anti-Fascista leader, presided over the first convention of the Democratic League, a unien of the old Liberal and Democratic Parties. It was resolved to champion at the elections "parliamentary government, statutory liberty and sovereignty of the vote without coercion of any party." The same resolution condemned the present electoral law (TIME, May 28, et seq.) as an "artifice which assured a majority to any party which could use the governmental agencies...
...constitutional monarchy or will become a republic. The plebiscite, according to present arrangements, will not be held until the Spring; the interval to be devoted to preparing the way for the people to decide their own fate under conditions that shall be absolutely free of political corruption or coercion...
...Chamber between M. Herriot, Radical Socialist leader, and Premier Poincaré. M. Herriot, after roundly attacking the Premier's Ruhr policy, stated that if the Radicals should be successful in the May elections they would seek an equitable settlement on the reparations problem without resorting to coercion. He also complained of the lack of inter-Allied accord...
Invaders would not know how to cope with a people who refused to fight, he said. But he upheld the economic boycott as a legitimate method of coercion...