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...Gandhi's order, even the Empire Prime Minister, big and beefy Stanley Baldwin, might well tremble at the ultimatum of India's skinny little saint. As matters stand, it can only be said that the Gandhi boycott of several years ago was a serious but not fatal blow to Great Britain's vital trade with India. Whether a more effective boycott could be staged next year is a question for Hindu Gods-and Mohammed's Allah-to answer. Last week the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress put Saint Gandhi's ultimatum...
...anyone can lead India's lazy enervated Hindus to strike a virile blow at Britain, that someone is the Pandit...
...taciturn Socialist who makes no unnecessary public gestures, made a point of meeting the Hoovers at the terminal, thus sharing any danger the visitors might be in, thus trying to efface the national embarrassment felt by Argentina over the plan of some of her naughty children had had to blow Goodwill to smithereens...
...hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow in from other big cities to "take that mob over the jumps...
Only a month ago came the tenth anniversary of the day once announced as the marker of the end of war, but so soon to become the starting-line for post-war platitudes. Manifold the causes must be that could blow the clear flame of idealism to the smoky glare of hatred. South American border rows are a common-place, but not for long have the contestants stood up so eagerly to cleave the air with passes at each other. It is true that the little brethen of the South felt none of the reverberations of the World War except...