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Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought...
Into the teeth of England whose hand has long been dominant in the Far East, a small, brown man of India prepares to throw a grain of salt. Fourteen days have elapsed since Mahatma Gandhi began his pilgrimage to the sea. Four more are necessary before the one hundred and fifty miles are completed and general civil disobedience can be inaugurated by the manufacture of salt in defiance of the British monopoly. The path of the leader and the seventy-eight faithful does not lack cheers, flowers, triumphal arches...
...girl that Gandhi left behind him had plenty to do. In his Ashram ("college") on the Sabarmarti River, some 22 persons had been stricken with smallpox, three were already dead. What might ordinarily have been a crisis was overshadowed by the excitement attending the Mahatma's departure...
...swirling, jabbering crowd of some 20,000 greeted the marchers with shouts and cheers as they emerged in the dawn. Sentries paced around nearby salt pans fearing Nationalist attacks. An Indian woman presented the Mahatma with a horse, to be used if any of the marchers fell sick. Little, glinting clouds of rupees were flung over the heads of the swarthy group, and on every hand sounded the CRACK, CRACK of cocoanuts broken asunder by the Hindus to assure good fortune. A volunteer band raised their horns and blared a few bars of "God Save the King" before they realized...
...four hours the Mahatma trudged along the dusty roads before he reached the village of Aslali, end of the first day's march. As he progressed, the host which had saluted his departure and followed him in orderly fashion for many miles gradually fell back, the cheering died away. At Aslali some 125 natives greeted him with garlands and song. The Mahatma addressed them, declared that his aide Vallabhai Patel had been arrested a week previously for intending to speak in public. Said Saint Gandhi: "Let the Government arrest me for actually doing...