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...Gandhi boycott against British goods reached such proportions that the Japanese Government railways cut freight and railway rates to speed goods from Japanese factories to boats destined for India, so that Japan may get all possible business while the getting is good; 2) His Majesty's Viceroy, Baron Irwin, accepted the "protest resignation" of the Speaker of the Indian assembly; 3) the Bombay stock exchange and other business houses closed for a day "in protest" when St. Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted...
These things were happening and yet the British Government of India did nothing last week. His Majesty's viceroy, Baron Irwin, sat as placidly and as expectantly at his desk in Government House, New Delhi, as did St. Gandhi by the sea. When the sun evaporated enough water to produce a few pinches of salt the momentous grains were sold to eager bidders for a total of $160. This act was analogous to a sale in the middle of Main Street of a case of Scotch...
...such a pitch of fervor that, at one word from "Recpolman" Gandhi, the most terrible grapple and insurrection of modern times would have begun. George V knows how many of his subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven-day ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose to rebuke Indians for what he called their folly and breakdown of discipline, canceled his whole movement, became temporarily unpopular and, as Baron Lloyd says: "Then we put him in jail. You know the rest...
Asked if he would join the campaign of, intensive civil disobedience which the nationalist Mahatma Gandhi is now threatening to launch against the viceroy in India, Krishnamurti replied. "I would take no part in politics. I do not think of myself as a citizen of any country." He did, however, state that he believes India fit for self-rule, assuming she is safe from foreign invasion...
...from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever to noble rank...