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...Immediate modification by executive decree, effective last week, of the laws constituting the British salt monopoly in India...
During the Irwin-Gandhi conversations, it was revealed last week, the Mahatma refused tea, drank hot lemonade containing a few grains of ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURED SALT. Thus the Viceroy became accessory to a crime. But under the truce signed last week any Indian may quarry salt or evaporate it from seawater for the use of himself or cattle, or even sell it within his village. Otherwise the salt trade remains a British prerogative...
...Colorado, and the north of Texas. The traveling will be done by truck, and the party will usually camp out. The first place that will be visited is the northern basin of the Rio Grande, where ancient lakes will be studied. From there the party will go to the salt lakes in the enclosed basin of the Estancia, and across the plains of Eastern New Mexico, ending at the Carlsbad Caverns...
...Refused as "impossible" St. Gandhi's demand that, as an evidence of British good faith, the salt laws be suspended at once, terminating the British salt monopoly, and making it possible, among other things, for Indian farmers to lead their cattle down to the sea for a salty drink, which is now illegal...
...Cabinet. Beneath the crucifix lies a Bible. Upon it swear Prime Minister Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar y Cabanas and, one by one, all the rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise...