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Between the Roy* and the Viceroy there is this difference: The Earl of Willingdon on his throne at Delhi can initiate action, decree the most drastic measures?in short, can rule. Last week the return to India of Mahatma Gandhi gave the Viceroy a chance to seem every inch a king. When Mr. Gandhi begged audience by telegram to discuss Lord Willingdon's recent ordinance suppressing free speech, freedom of assembly and virtually all civil rights in Bengal (TIME, Dec. 14), he received from the Viceregal court the telegraphic answer...
...well-established maxim that the world withholds full approval of its prophets and guides, so long as they are still living. In the contemporary world, Mahatma Gandhi appears to be a striking exception to this rule. His political creed and conduct are too well-known to need rehearsing, but the effect they have produced justifies special emphasis. The whole-hearted support which he enjoys in India is impressive in itself, but the reception which he, although its avowed enemy, received as a visitor to England, seems like an even more remarkable instance of the triumph of a moral ideal...
...Indian jail, from which he plans to renew the struggle for freedom. Very likely the resistance of the British Empire will be the more bitter, from the fear that an independent India is perhaps ultimately inevitable. But that it will come very soon is more doubtful. On the Mahatma's return to India, if press reports were accurate, the fire of enthusiasm was less strong among his followers. Coupled with the smothered hostility of the Moslems, the end of the Round Table Conference may well be the beginning of bitter days for Gandhi. People are usually ready to accept...
...year 1931 pitched even Colonel Lindbergh into heathen waters; sent Mahatma Gandhi disgruntled back to India; faced Josef Stalin with ragged gaps in the Five-Year Plan (see p. 16); failed to produce a Fascist government under Adolf Hitler (potential Man of 1932). But who rose from obscurity to world prominence, steered a Great Power safely through 1931, closed the year on a peak of popularity among his countrymen...
...Paris the Mahatma told an audience of 2,000, chiefly women, that "if only women could forget that they belong to the weaker sex, they could do more than men to prevent wars...