Last week observers noted the following steps in Mahatma Gandhi's campaign of open violation of the British salt monopoly in India, his policy of passive resistance to the British Raj:
¶ On the 11th anniversary of the Amritsar Massacre (when over 300 Indian men and women were shot down by British troops) half a million natives gathered on the beach near Bombay to scoop up water, extract forbidden salt by evaporation. Towards evening a huge, blood-red papier-mache monster, symbolizing the salt tax, was dumped into the...
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