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With Gandhi went Mme. Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Gandhi, older (73), tinier (barely four feet tall) and far frailer than her scrawny spouse who is still tough as nails despite the fiction that he is sickly, was allowed to remain in the Birla home. But that evening, she, too, was arrested when she tried to make a speech before 30,000 persons in a big Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last...
...Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
...arrest followed the pattern which since October has resulted in the jailing of some 5,000 Indians, including the President of the Indian National Congress (Abul Kalam Mohiyuddin Ahmed Azad), three onetime Presidents (Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Mrs. Sarojini Nai-du), four former Prime Ministers of Indian provinces, eleven former Ministers, five speakers of provincial legislatures, seven members of the Congress Working Committee (Cabinet) and 100-odd members of the Congress Executive Committee-practically every important Congress leader except Mohandas Gandhi himself...
Vassar's tall, pallid President Henry Noble MacCracken named the five Most Intelligent Women in the World: Angelica Balanbanoff, internationalist, author of My Life As a Rebel (TIME, Aug. 1); Halidé Edib, Turkish patriot, onetime Professor of Western Literature at Istanbul University; Sarojini Naidu, Indian poetess, friend & adviser of Mahatma Gandhi; Mme Chiang Kaishek, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Visiting a Parliament of Religions in Calcutta while his monoplane underwent repairs at Nagpur, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh heard himself compared by Indian Poetess Sarojini Naidu to Buddha, Galileo and "other spiritual figures of the world," flushed scarlet...