Mahatma Hunter

"You think it hot, today? You should feel it in Calcutta! Most people last only five years in India. That was the length of my appointment—long enough! For my duty as Advocate General of Bengal was to act as a sort of personal court of final appeal. Perhaps the greatest single problem which cropped up to face me was whether or not to prosecute Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Will you gentlemen have more tea?"

The gentlemen had rowed out, sweating, into the great crescent river-harbor of...

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