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Gandhi was arrested in 1922, after his failure to prevent his noncooperating followers from committing acts of violence against the British Raj. He declared that his views on politics and religion had undergone no change in prison. He objected to the tendency to make a saint...
...India to remain within the British Empire." This conservative phrase was uttered not by Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, nor by Ramsay MacDonald. The words are those of the "wonderworker" Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, now recuperating at the Poona mountain-rosort from the effects of confinement in Yeravda Prison for sedition...
According to Gandhi's son Devadas, the Mahatma lost eight of his 98 pounds in prison. This is attributed to his rule to eat only twice a day, at sunrise and sunset, and never more than five articles of diet. (He counts soup seasoned with salt and pepper as three articles...
Today, seekers of divorce study the marriage laws with equal perspicacity and success. Prison or matrimony, there is sure to be some land where the laws permit escape. Signora Marconi, Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Elena of. Italy, who, before her marriage 20 years ago in England to Scientist Marconi, was the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, fifth daughter of Baron Inchiquin, etc., etc., etc., thought she had found such a land...
Eight of his 98 pounds lost in prison...