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Early one morning last week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract...
Before he left, the Mahatma bade goodbye to Mrs. Gandhi, a shriveled little middle-aged Hindu. Well-educated, she oversees the cooking and housekeeping at her husband's headquarters and ''college," lectures to Hindu women, promotes a "spinning campaign" whereby Hindu women of high and low degree are urged to spend some part of each day at their looms...
...Mahatma also bade goodbye to a six-foot sun-blackened, scantily-clad girl of 30, with a shaven pate, who is general supervisor of the headquarters, and would tend his tasks during his absence. Srimati Mira Bai he calls her, but her real name is Madeleine Slade. Once a freckled blonde, she is a daughter of the late Admiral Sir Edward Slade of the Royal Navy. She studied philosophy in several Continental schools, found nothing to inspire her until she read of the Mahatma's labor. Correspondence with him followed; in 1926 she went to India, cheerfully accepted the year...
...that instead of rising to a boil congeals to passive and all-expanding ice. It is a rebellion typically modern in that it aims to force the English out of the government by forcing them out of business. Above all it is a rebellion intensified by the personality of Mahatma Gandhi with whom originated the plan of passive resistance by economic boycott and general non-cooperation...
...gained across the bodies of dead infidels. Against them, at the present time at least, England's defense is imperative. Practically every great plague that has scourged Europe originated in India; and the scalpel and the microscope of western science would still be a definite loss. The weakness of Mahatma Gandhi lies in his rejection of all western influence, just as the weakness of the West lies in its callousness to Eastern culture...