Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly perfect was a sarcasm uttered last week by ex-Viceroy of India Baron Irwin. Last year while Mr. Gandhi was in London, Lord Irwin was often called his "friend," interceded frequently with the Mahatma on behalf of His Majesty's Government. Last week correspondents told the tall baron that in Yerovda Jail near Bombay, small Mr. Gandhi had decided to begin "a fast unto Death." Reason: to protest against the Indian franchise system arbitrarily decreed by His Majesty's Government after the leading Indians consulted had withdrawn in a body from the Government's consultative committee...
Commented Friend Irwin: "Gandhi is now speaking in a language the Indian people understand. If I were to get out in the hallway of the government buildings at New Delhi, squat on the floor and refuse to eat a bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in a few days. Of course, before those few days could elapse my Liberal, Conservative and Labor colleagues in London would send for me to come home and would have a padded cell waiting for me on my arrival...
From London to Gandhi cabled Vithalbhai Patel, onetime President of the Indian Legislative Assembly: "You expect His Majesty's Government to modify its actions. Your expectation is based upon the assumption that the British Government has a heart which we can touch by our sufferings. It is heartless. ... I, with all Indians abroad, deplore your decision to fast unto death...
Certainly His Majesty's Government has a head. Two days after Lord Irwin's memorable sarcasm the Government announced that Gandhi, who was not "imprisoned" but "detained during the pleasure of the Government" in Yerovda Jail, would be ousted and detained under guard in a house, if he should begin to fast. Thus, said a British spokesman "the question of forcible feeding would not arise...
...save her daughter from the gangster, she does it with a calloused resignation that makes her less the mother than the moll. Good scene: Alison Skipworth showing her autograph album with the two entries: "Prosperity, Herb" (says she: "That was before he was elected") and "'India Is Yours, Gandhi...