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Since many of his old followers have broken away in an opposition led by the highcaste Hindu Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Gandhi has not been so humble. Last April he said tartly that the civil disobedience campaign should be resumed "in my lifetime only under my direction." Since April the little man has been stoned and bombed. And last week he announced that he will soon visit the Afghan border to support his Afghan disciple, Abdul Gaffur Khan ("The Frontier Gandhi"), and "gauge the strength of the spirit of non-violence among the tribes...
Question of Competence. Most surprisingly at this point the London Conference received a cablegram from Allahabad, where prominent Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs have been holding a ''Unity Conference." The cablegram, signed by Pandit Madan Mohan Mala viva, a Hindu leader much revered and close to Mahatma Gandhi, stated that the Unity Conference had united in rejecting the British proposals for "communal representation" and further agreed that "transference of the government from the British Raj to the Indian people is an indispensable step, preliminary to any other agreement...
...trying to prevent the Gandhite Indian National Congress from holding its 49th session at New Delhi. Fifteen minutes after she left Bombay the Congress President, famed Indian Poetess Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, was arrested. Her successor as President, India's revered Pandit Mohan Malavija, was arrested as he reached New Delhi along with 369 delegates to the Congress. These arrests (in the opinion of British officials at the Vice-regal Capital) placed under lock & key in various parts of India some 50,000 followers of the Mahatma "including all who are nationally known...
...Gandhi. These Indians, comprising the largest, most resolute, most highly organized body of Indian public opinion quietly boycotted the Conference, continued last week their non-violent demonstrations for Independence (see p. 21). St. Gandhi squatted placidly spinning in Poona Jail. Jailed also are some 30.000 Gandhites, including Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, "The Lord Mayor of the Second City of the Empire," Calcutta...
Erin O'Brien-Moore, ingenue of Street Scene, recalled having met "Red" Mohan. She was "busy" when he telephoned, she said...