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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India to remain within the British Empire." This conservative phrase was uttered not by Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, nor by Ramsay MacDonald. The words are those of the "wonderworker" Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, now recuperating at the Poona mountain-rosort from the effects of confinement in Yeravda Prison for sedition...
According to Gandhi's son Devadas, the Mahatma lost eight of his 98 pounds in prison. This is attributed to his rule to eat only twice a day, at sunrise and sunset, and never more than five articles of diet. (He counts soup seasoned with salt and pepper as three articles...
...Indianapolis Convention in January when to pledged themselves not to enlist in any future war, Mr. Abbot declared, "I heartily disagree with any such policy, and I thank that these people who go to the different colleges trying to stir up pacifist enthusiasm should be put in prison. If we are to abolish violence, and even tea threat of violence from international affairs, we must devise means for arraying against in natural hatred and loathing. Our plan, by taking away all promise of profit in war, would destroy a great deal of the incentive for war. It would make...
...been known for some weeks that the Undergraduate Committee of the Union has urged this step. With its sanction, the names of Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader who was thrown in to prison during the War, Dr. Scott Nearing, the radical professor who was forced to leave the University of Pennsylvania when the United States entered the War, and W. Z. Foster, leader were proposed at a recent Board meeting, but were provisionally voted down. It is understood that through the insistence of the Undergraduate Committee, the present new committee on speakers was appointed by the Board...
...Archbishop Zepliak, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, convicted and once condemned to death, was released from prison. He will be banished. This action follows strong representations made by the Pope to the Powers...