Word: yerovda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 96½ lb. the weight of Mahatma Gandhi dropped to 93¼ lb. last week as he began one more "fast unto death" in Yerovda jail to force from the British Raj greater freedom to propagandize on behalf of India's "Untouchables." Alarmed when Faster Gandhi developed acute kidney trouble. Viceroy Earl Willingdon had him removed to a hospital, also released Mrs. Gandhi from jail to permit her to attend her husband...
...Vallabhai Jhaverbhai Patel is not in a sanatorium in Vienna but in a cell in Yerovda jail where he was Mahatma's companion before the latter's release...
...hour later, on scheduled time, he began a one-man war of inaction: a three-week fast to protest India's stigma on Untouchables. The first day he drank a good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail entrance, was driven to the villa of one of his followers, Lady Vittal Das Thackersey...
...contradictory cables from Allahabad and Delhi raised once more the issue of competence. Who is competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present...
...Kingdom, where statesmen observe the Friday-to-Monday week-end quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British?if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which the Mahatma forbade? Far more potent...