INDIA: Gandhi In High

It was so hot in New Delhi last week that airplane pilots clad only in shorts said they were still comfortable at 20,000 feet. Was Mohandas Gandhi crazy with the heat?

Under the blazing sun, little Mohandas Gandhi's faith in the non-violent noncooperation which he urges for India's defense reached such furnace temperature that he wrote in the journal Harijan: "The presence of the British in India is an invitation to Japan to invade India. Their withdrawal would remove the bait. . . . Free India would be better able to cope...

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