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...India, however, such is the way a statesman practices his profession. Nobody thought Mahatma Gandhi mad, fortnight ago, when he started to walk 200 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea (TIME, March 24). As he trudged along last week, at an average speed of 10 miles per day, Englishmen were not amused but desperately anxious...
...Shame upon you, Christians!" the mute nakedness of the Mahatma cries louder than words?for Englishmen know that they as individuals have not, and that he as an individual has, obeyed the command: "Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor." He built up as a young man one of the most lucrative legal practices in India, then devoted all his possessions except the last wad or two of rags to succoring the needy. During the Boer war he turned the other cheek to Great Britain by organizing Indian Red Cross units, served with such passive, non-violent...
...with his large mind obsessed by this strange ideology that Mahatma Gandhi made to Indians his recent terrible, mystic appeal (TIME, March 24): "Money alone will not win self-government. If money could win, I should have obtained it long ago. What is required, therefore, is your blood...
...defy the British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
Because he made a "seditious utterance" in praise of Mahatma Gandhi, the Mayor of Calcutta, Mr. J. M. Sengupta was sentenced to ten days' imprisonment last week, while he sat mute and motionless in court, refusing to make any defense. When the Mahatma came to the village of Ankhi on his walk he rebuked the inhabitants for their passive refusal to allow the local British police to buy food. "It is against religious principles to starve anyone," said the saint. "I would suck snake's poison even from General Dyer, should he be bitten...