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From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
Within the prison walls of the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona death came to Kasturbai Gandhi. On the funeral day the guarded gates opened, briefly, to let aged, withered Mohandas Gandhi follow the body of his wife and co-prisoner to its pyre...
This week militant Nationalists rioted in Bombay, Poona, Ahmadabad, marking a year of jail for Gandhi. Police arrested freely...
...seats officially reserved for Moslem candidates in the Moslem provinces. But the Congress party, with 8,000 leaders still under arrest since last August's riotous break with the British, was in a weakened condition last week. From the Aga Khan's palace at Poona, Gandhi made his first public attempt to get back into the political stream since a 21-day fast had failed to gain him his freedom (TIME, March 15). The move had been prompted by Jinnah himself...
...Poona to The Bronx. Soccer is played in some 60 nations with varying degrees of intensity and skill. In South America and the British Isles (where, legend says, the game was first played with the skull of a hated Dane) soccer fans pack stadiums seating 100,000 to 150,000. In Moscow a few years ago 2,000,000 fans applied for tickets to an international match between Turkey's No. 1 team and Moscow's beloved Dynamo Club (Russia's New York Yankees...