INDIA: Lady After Saint

If St. Gandhi were a newborn babe, if James Ramsay MacDonald were his proud father, St. Gandhi could not have been treated with more tender, solicitous care than was lavished by His Majesty's Government last week.

The special apartments at the Poona jail, the special herd purchased to provide the Saint with goat's milk, the special chef hired to pamper the prisoner's taste (TIME, May 12), not even all these luxuries sufficed. Poona was deemed too warm. By means so secret that no detail leaked out, the prisoner was spirited to Purandhar...

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