INDIA: Saint Fined

When a Most Holy Mahatma or Hindu Saint is caught red-handed staging a bonfire of British cloth for propaganda purposes, how stiffly should the Saint be fined?

Emaciated, bandy-legged Mahatma Gandhi is Most Holy. He lives on cold water and Indian leeks. Skinny, always nine-tenths naked, and to Occidentals often ridiculous in appearance, he yet evokes from myriads of Hindus the purest devotion, the blindest obedience Just now Gandhi is crusading afresh for a boycott of British goods. He has ulti-matumed that by 1930 India...

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