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After two years of "the law's delay," sentence was last week pronounced. Burrill Ruskay, head of the firm, was found guilty of trading against the account of a customer. He must undergo a prison sentence of from three months to three years. Ruskay has appealed the case, however, so that even this slight punishment has a very theoretical aspect. In spite of the ex-bucketshop keeper's plea that he was penniless, he presented what has been termed a "brisk apearance" in court and seemed to be able to command the services of expensive legal counsel...
...urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine him in prison, after one of the most extraordinary trials in English judicial history...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...
...John Carley, ex-convict and professional thief, who decides, under the pressure of reading he has done in the prison library, to become "an intellectual Christ." He robs department stores in the day, and in the evening he gives away sealed envelopes containing one hundred dollar bills...
...story of the leader of the irreconcilable East, who was crushed--consciously, inevitably, by the exigencies of the imperial West. It is not a tragedy of blood, anger, and revolution--it is a greater tragedy of mind, soul, and lack of understanding. Although Gandhi is still alive in prison, his life story has been told--as Napoleon's was told after Waterloo, as Jesus's was after Calvary. All through the story the tragedy can be felt--it is as inevitable as the human tragedy of Jesus's life...