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During the struggle Britain's common-sense Raj yielded first on a minor point. Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon's much publicized order to eject the Mahatma from jail and detain him under guard in another place (TIME, Sept. 26) simply was not carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached...
...sarcasm uttered last week by ex-Viceroy of India Baron Irwin. Last year while Mr. Gandhi was in London, Lord Irwin was often called his "friend," interceded frequently with the Mahatma on behalf of His Majesty's Government. Last week correspondents told the tall baron that in Yerovda Jail near Bombay, small Mr. Gandhi had decided to begin "a fast unto Death." Reason: to protest against the Indian franchise system arbitrarily decreed by His Majesty's Government after the leading Indians consulted had withdrawn in a body from the Government's consultative committee...
Certainly His Majesty's Government has a head. Two days after Lord Irwin's memorable sarcasm the Government announced that Gandhi, who was not "imprisoned" but "detained during the pleasure of the Government" in Yerovda Jail, would be ousted and detained under guard in a house, if he should begin to fast. Thus, said a British spokesman "the question of forcible feeding would not arise...
...have said before that Hutchinson ought to be clapped into jail for thus imperiling his two little daughters. . . . He certainly deserves some punishment, not only for his own act, but as a deterrent to other parental irresponsibilities. . . ."-New York Evening Post...
Pilot Hutchinson would have made a particularly wry face over the Evening Post's blunt comment, for in 1925 he narrowly missed being clapped in jail for embezzling $34,220 while employed as a bookkeeper in Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Trust Co. Obtaining a suspended sentence by agreeing to turn over 10% of his earnings to his bonding company, he was paroled for 25 years. He is now out of Pennsylvania by permission of the chief parole officer...