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When St. Gandhi entered New Delhi to do verbal battle with Viceroy Baron Irwin (TIME, March 2) at least 80,000 Indians mobbed him with acclaim. Affectionate pressure stove in a window of the Mahatma's automobile, showered his blanket with splintered glass. But last week the skinny little champion managed to leave New Delhi amid a demonstration twice as orderly, half as large. He had only signed a truce...
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...India the Viceroy preserves, if possible, a more regal dignity than George V himself. Men and maharajahs do not sit down in Lord Irwin's presence without his leave, do not speak until the Viceroy has spoken. But last week dignity went by the board when small, brown St. Gandhi clattered up to the Vice-regal Palace at New Delhi in a cheap American automobile and alighted wearing a blanket to which was pinned a dollar watch. As his tiny guest had stipulated, the excessively tall Viceroy met him "as a man, not Viceroy," and St. Gandhi, looking...
What Mutt Irwin and Jeff Gandhi said to each other for the next four hours was their secret. No secretary was present. The principals themselves, after gentle insistence by Lord Irwin, scribbled their own notes. Optimism bounded as the midget made a hurried exit, saying: "I am satisfied, even optimistic. But I must hurry. If I don't get home before sundown, I must fast tonight"-for it is Mr. Gandhi's rule to eat but once a day, never at night, and he had taken Lord Irwin on an empty stomach. Twice more, last week, the "friends...
...pilot of India's Ship of State, Viceroy Baron Irwin went in a single day last week from Full Speed Ahead to Full Speed Astern...