Foreign News: Miss Lester on St. Gandhi

Aflutter last week was Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley Hall Settlement, Bow, who had just received a letter from her good friend Mahatma Gandhi that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of...

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