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...West, whereas it is spurned in the East. Here it has been put upon a pedestal and made a God. The West has raised up a monster which has all but destroyed it. The best minds in the East have ever stood against this principle, trying like Ghandi to live as Christ did; while the best minds in the West endorse...
...Politics in India are entering upon a new phase. The failure of the noncoöperation movement has passed into history in spite of the feeble efforts of Mr. Ghandi's followers to keep it alive; but the causes of that movement are still operating, and to them can be attributed the latest developments of the Indian situation. Noncoöperation is dead, but Nationalism lives and is the stronger for having learnt the lessons of Mr. Ghandi's failure. The Nationalist movement. . . . is part of the great awakening of Asia which is destined one day to baffle...
...Ghandi is held as the second Christ by all India; he has broken all caste systems where centuries of oppression and gunpowder have failed, and has united India with one common aim," said Swami Yogananda, representative of the Maharaja of Kasimbazar in America, and recent delegate to the International Congress of Religions, speaking yesterday before the Liberal Club. "A bloodless revolution is his idea, an India conquering through ideals...
...Ghandi," he went on, "does not demand complete independence for his country, but merely home rule. He wants England to redress the wrongs which she has done, and to refrain from using Indian troops in foreign wars. Contrary to the popular notion, he does not favor violence as a means to his end. His own words are" 'I would rather give up may plans than use violence, because if violence is necessary, the time for Indian freedom is not yet here'. That, of course, is not the attitude of all India, but it is the felling of the great many...
...Ghandi advocates, not complete independence, but merely home-rule, but I believe that independence is inevitable. If India gets home-rule she will then be in a position to take complete freedom whenever she wants it Now, English statesmen know home necessary India is to England in an economic way and as the most important link in the British chain of dominions, and they would therefore govern their policy so as the prevent India from breaking away. In other words, English foreign policy would be controlled by India. For this reason, England will not give home-rule...