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...mutton cooked British style. . . . Legislation should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home. . . ." ¶Outside Bombay, U.S. soldiers asked the aging Mahatma Gandhi to sign their "short-snorter" bills. The proud little Hindu, only one month out of British incarceration, refused to sign an Indian bank note. But when the soldiers handed him Chinese money, he gladly squiggled his signature...
Every week a 25-lb. package of plastic printing plates flies 12,000 airline miles from Chicago to New Delhi. There the Army puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others...
Ever since Mahatma Gandhi pulled through his fast, Indians and British alike have been standoffishly waiting for a next move-for Gandhi's survival by no means closed the issue for which he failed to die. There were some moves last week, but they only widened the breach...
...considered more newsworthy but less important that Gandhi, thinner than ever, his head propped on pillows, had broken his fast with a glass of orange juice in the Aga Khan's palace. Gandhi, whom the world's press last week had almost forgotten to call "Mahatma" ("Great Soul") was again just a prisoner, held incommunicado and charged with inciting revolt in wartime...
...fast of Mohandas K. Gandhi is the Mahatma's tenth public hunger strike since 1918. Many were for minor reasons. Only twice before has Gandhi fasted "against" the British...