In the elaborate hall of Lady Vittal das Thackersey's marble villa outside Poona squatted more than 100 persons last weekHindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Christiansall gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible.
Doctors, his own disciples, the British Government all thought...
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