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...India the Viceroy preserves, if possible, a more regal dignity than George V himself. Men and maharajahs do not sit down in Lord Irwin's presence without his leave, do not speak until the Viceroy has spoken. But last week dignity went by the board when small, brown St. Gandhi clattered up to the Vice-regal Palace at New Delhi in a cheap American automobile and alighted wearing a blanket to which was pinned a dollar watch. As his tiny guest had stipulated, the excessively tall Viceroy met him "as a man, not Viceroy," and St. Gandhi, looking...
...home before sundown, I must fast tonight"-for it is Mr. Gandhi's rule to eat but once a day, never at night, and he had taken Lord Irwin on an empty stomach. Twice more, last week, the "friends" met. Once the Viceroy sent around to Mr. Gandhi's lodgings the most tempting gift His Excellency could imagine: a cool jug of the best goat's milk and a bunch of the most luscious hothouse grapes. Mr. Gandhi began sending telegrams to Nationalist leaders all over India saying merely: "Come to me," and they...
After his third conference with the Viceroy, the Mahatma said: "The meetings have been conducted with much sweetness. The result is in the hands...
...crime. But today the British Government wants India's Nationalist leaders to read, discuss among themselves and accept the plan for "reserved Dominion Status" drafted in London by the Indian Round Table Conference (TIME, Jan. 26). In jail they could read, but not discuss. Therefore, last week, the Viceroy decreed that what had been crimes the day before were no longer crimes, ordered the "unconditional release" of the principal Nationalists and their leader, St. Gandhi...
...telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued to demonstrate for independence and had to be locked up again. In Calcutta, simultaneously, Nationalist S. Chandra Bose was let out of jail. He promptly resumed his Nationalist oratory, was locked...