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Last fortnight in a furnace-like jail cell at Poona, the little human lemur who is India's greatest figure, the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, slowly sipped a glass of fruit juice. Half an 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...
...Gandhi basked in the sun; by night he stared at the stars from Lady Thackersey's veranda. His eyes sank further into his head, his collarbone stuck out like a harness. But as he began the second week of his fast he was cheerful. His wife, released from jail, was with him. His son Harilal (eldest of four) came to make his filial peace after a twelve-year estrangement. Father patted son on the back, broke his prescription of silence to talk happily...
...espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been arrested. Even Warrant Officer Traviglia's wife did not know what had become of him until two days before the trial. The charge was simple. The beautiful Camilla seduced Ugo when she learned that...
Every energetic newshawk has pipelines of information which flow only so long as they remain hidden. A brave newshawk would sooner go to jail-and sometimes he does-than violate journalism's law: Never expose your pipelines. Last week the Governor of New Jersey signed a bill giving the Press the same right of protecting confidences that is enjoyed by the medical and legal professions. It provides that the newsman need not make known to any county grand jury, legislative committee or other investigating body the source of information obtained by him and published in his paper. A similar...
Cananea Copper Co., to establish a loss of $759,000, and failing to report a bonus of $666,666.67 from National City Co., thereby avoiding a tax of $130,000. Penalty if convicted: not more than five years in jail nor more than $10,000 fine...