INDIA: Chariot of Freedom

A flag of orange, white and dark green—with a spinning wheel rampant on the white—is the banner of the Indian National Congress, the party name of Mahatma Gandhi's followers. Last year the 3,000,000 enrolled, dues-paying members of the party resolved that they must have a physical nucleus, a permanent Congress City of their own at some place completely away from British-dominated cities. Last week this great constructive dream of a multitude of squabbling politicians came to a physical culmination.

The site chosen was in virgin territory, some 200 miles north of Bombay...

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