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Last fortnight in a furnace-like jail cell at Poona, the little human lemur who is India's greatest figure, the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, slowly sipped a glass of fruit juice. Half an hour later, on scheduled time, he began a one-man war of inaction: a three-week fast to protest India's stigma on Untouchables. The first day he drank a good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail...
...jail cell in Poona last week squatted India's most famous man, the wizened little brown man with the big-eared, big-eyed face of a bespectacled lemur: the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. For four months he had been out of the news, drinking goat's milk, spinning cotton on his charkha, brooding as ever on the woes of India's Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week...
Beyond his own shores he would find no new name that had skyrocketed into world consciousness during the twelvemonth. Mahatma Gandhi, 1930's Man of the Year, is still a prisoner of Britain in the Poona jail and his Indian followers are quiescent if not quiet. Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, was swept out of the premiership of France last February, is today only a Senator without portfolio. The May elections put Edouard Herriot into power for six months but fortnight ago he and his Ministry went crashing out on the issue of paying...
...Meher Baba met a holy woman named Baba Jan (Angel of the Father) who died lately at Poona at the reputed age of 130. Meher Baba soon had a vision of his divine nature. For nine months he lay in a coma, came out of it "merged into God." It is explained that many people are in such a super-conscious state but few can remain in touch with the world, like Meher Baba, and help others to attain divinity...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences also announced the award of 63 master of arts degrees. The men receiving this degree as of the Class of 1931 were: Winslow Ames, Yonkers, New York, P. V. Bapat, Poona City, India, C. C. Beach, Chevy Chase, Mary-land, W. H. Bennett, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, J. H. Birss, Jr., New York City, B. A. Booth, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, W. H. Butler, Jr., Wakefield, R. B. Canary, Bowling Green, Ohio, C. E. Carey, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, G. A. Chaffee, Warwick, R. W. Chapman, Groveton, N. H. Kai-Tze Chi, Washington, D. C., C. B. Colton, Dorchester...