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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan .stands 6 ft. 3 in., and once weighed 220 Ibs. He has a martial beak of a nose and a clipped white beard. Though at 63 he is ailing, he used to look capable of tearing a bullock apart with his hands. For the past 30 years, Ghaffar Khan has practiced and preached nonviolence. He was Gandhi's chief convert among the Moslems, and in the rugged Khyber Pass region he is still known as "the Frontier Gandhi...
...Pathan. and scion of Moslem notables in the North-West Frontier Province, Ghaffar Khan tramped the roads, spreading the gospel of satyagraha (passive resistance). His followers were called "Red Shirts" because they wore garments dyed with a cheap red coloring from red bricks...
...British came to fear his nonviolence more than the rifles of the Frontiersmen, and Ghaffar Khan was jailed repeatedly, serving a total of six years. Once in a British prison, his ankle was bound so tightly that the flesh became infected. He came out of jail 100 Ibs. lighter. Said he: "With love you can persuade a Pathan to go to hell, but by force you can not take him even to Heaven...
...Simla's highest, loveliest, fir-green hills to the viceregal lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru rode on a brown-and-white-spotted Yarkand pony; fierce-eyed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and goateed Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad each came in a ricksha pulled by four runners; tall, bearded Khan Abdul Ghaffar came on his own long legs; Mohamed Ali Jinnah and his Moslem League delegation in an ancient, khaki-colored Humber sedan...
Because constables at a place called Elkton, Md. had dared to snap handcuffs on the aristocratic wrists of Iran's Minister Plenipotentiary, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, arrest him for speeding, all diplomatic and consular agents of Iran have been withdrawn from the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran...