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...Zanzibar objected. Before long half of its members were out of work. Finally, after four years of railing against the English association, its bearded President Tayyib Ali took the problem to Mahatma Gandhi. Last September, India's National Congress appointed the Mahatma's first lieutenant, rich Vallabhbhai Patel as chairman of a committee to look into a boycott of Zanzibar cloves...
...site chosen was in virgin territory, some 200 miles north of Bombay and eleven miles from the nearest railway. It was on the vast estates of fierce-mustached, smoldering-eyed, trembling-lipped Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of mild Saint Gandhi's wealthiest followers. As might be expected, this great mogul, scion of a rich Bombay family of landed proprietors, is no radical. He insists that "In accordance with ancient Indian tradition we must see that the landlord ever remains the father and guardian of his tenants!" But although he is violently opposed to the Socialistic tenets of many...
Died. Vithalbhai Javerbhai Patel, 60, Indian Nationalist leader, twice president of the Indian Legislative Assembly; of heart disease; in a clinic near Geneva...
...Vallabhai Jhaverbhai Patel is not in a sanatorium in Vienna but in a cell in Yerovda jail where he was Mahatma's companion before the latter's release...
...telegram was sent by Vithalbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, onetime President of India's Legislative Assembly and elder brother to Vallabhai. Vithalbhai was on a lecture tour to the U. S. last winter...