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...time and money were well spent. In its finished form, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is precisely what it should be, a rich and engrossing melodrama, concerned with heroism, pigsticking, torture chambers, spies and the White Man's Burden, which should delight all occidental audiences and infuriate Mahatma Gandhi...
...With the Mahatma and other Indian leaders silently bookworming through Lord Linlithgow's 350 pages last week, Indian editors, according to their mood, either admitted "we shall have to bear it" (Hindustan Times) or blazed "fling the Report back in the teeth of those having the audacity to offer it!" (Bombay Forward...
Last week President Roosevelt took more positive steps to placate conservative opinion up to Nov. 6. In one day he smiled thrice in a way to captivate the gentlemen of the Right: 1) He denied that he had ever given Upton Sinclair. Mahatma of the West Coast millennium, a promise of any statement in his support (see p. 11). 2) He declared that he was giving no consideration to plans for substituting a central bank for the Federal Reserve System. 3) He went before the American Bankers Association and. after listening to a conciliatory speech by Manhattan Banker Jackson...
...citizenship to which she was born in the White House in 1876. which she lost in 1899 by marrying Russian Prince Michael Cantacuzene. Regretting that she had been unable to get accommodations in anything more humble than tourist class of the Majestic, Mirabai (Madeleine Slade), British disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, arrived in Manhattan after a stormy passage. Said Mirabai, shivering in woolen robe and sandals: "Miss Slade died nine years ago when I renounced the world. ... I shall try to give Mahatma's point of view. . . . Who can say that he is greater or less than your Christ...
...Since Mahatma Gandhi dropped his anti-British disobedience campaign and turned to such a forlorn cause as abolishing Untouchability, more and more of India's Hindus have turned away from him. In 1930 when he was all India's idol and a prisoner in the Poona jail, he whiled away the time translating from Sanskrit into English hymns from the Upanishads and other Sanskrit scriptures and from the Bhakti poets. Last week Macmillan Co. published his Songs From Prison. Samples...