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Considering that Poona and the editorial offices of TIME in New York are nearly 12,000 miles apart, the write-up (TIME, May 22) on Mahatma Gandhi's fast was fair and accurate but for the following...
...Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi...
Night before Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March...
...from the cot on which he nearly fasted to death (TIME, May 22 et seq.) rose shriveled Mahatma Gandhi last week. With Mrs. Gandhi at his side he hobbled out of the palatial villa at Parnakuti, near Poona, loaned him for his fast by eccentric Lady Thackersey. Creeping into a motor car he was driven into Poona at a dusty 50 m.p.h. to face the executive committee of his All-India National Congress Party. The committee was restive, if not rebellious. Many of the Mahatma's followers feel that his fasts to impress Indians with the need of abolishing...
...Churchill, snorting with impatience, jumped up to shout that "Mr. Baldwin made up his mind on India three years ago! . . . More recently the Viceroy. Lord Willingdon, has told us that the only party that could work this scheme is the Indian Congress party [of Mahatma Gandhi]. And where are the Indian Congress party? They are in jail! Are we to place the loyal police under the control of the very Congress members they arrested?" Thus challenged last week. Bumbling Stanley showed exactly as much and no more metal than is pleasing to the middle-of-the-road Conservatives who have...