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INDIA'S CHALLENGE TO BRITAIN.
INTERVIEW WITH GANDHI..
FRANK EXPLANATION OF PLANS FOR NON-CO-OPERATION.
Mr. C. J. Ketchum, a special corrispondent of the Daily Buress, recently had an inler. view at Ahmedabad with Mr. Gandhi, and incidentally met Miss Slade, the English lady who is one of the Indian leader's most earpest supporters, In view of the recent announcement that Mr. Gandhi has been instructed to put his plan for passive resistance into operation, the follow- ing exposition of his views is particularly interesting.
rived for my interview, and bare-1 millions of our men and women in footed and wearing only a plain their cottages spinning hour after This means a nation-wide Intian ear, or wrap, made of her hour. own handwoven cotton drawn over boycott of foreign spun cloths, and her head, squatted in the sand be in time must mean the end, of British predominance in an industry which is the principal reason for the presence of your British troops, in
A dark little man, frail and bent, with the longest eare. I have ever seen, with hair closely cropped, and luminous black eyes which shone through sun spectacles as beside me. spoke, sat in the shade of a grove of pomegranate trees on the banks of the holy river of Sabarmati this in one of the most remarkable interviews in my experience, dis cussed with me bis views on the future and destiny of India
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I asked Gandhi to outline for me the details of his plans for the execution of his crusade of civil dis obedience. -
Sho was introduced simply as Mira Bei, the name given to her by Gandhi after the renowned Raj-this country," putane princess, who is known among India's martyrs, but in fact he is the famous Miss Madeleine Slade, daughter of the late Admiral Slade, who was at one time in cam-
"I am not yet sure of the form mand of the East Indian Fleet.it will take," he replied. "I have Four and a half years ago she aban- come here, and in my seclusion 1 doned the ways of English society hope to evolve a plan of civil re- to come to India and embrace thesistance which will not cause des- truction or involve bloodshed, but cult of Hinduism.
which will be large enough to make the impression I desire.
Gandhi is now her master, and, accompanying him everywhere as he does in his travels, no one in all India is admitted more intimate-
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Gandhi's Challenge.
We seemed far from civilisation, as indeed we were, for I had travelled 400 miles from Bombay to reach this quaint old spinning city 7.00 7.997.34 of Ahmedabad, and bad then made
a further considerable journey inly to his confidence.. a primitive donkey cart over long where wild and dusty roads, monkeys seampered in the hedges by the wayside, to reach the zei moto little colony known as his "aahrara" or hermitage, the place to which he retires when he desiros to concentrate. bis whole, attention on some new conspiracy against the British Crown,
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"That is all I am doing here,"
he went on ndding ironically, **otherwise, as you can see, I am spinning."
Keed for Care.
Gandhi' himself, as I realised
Ho lapsed here into a long theore- would be the case before I went to see him, was more interesting tical explanation of the necessity than his micasage at any rate as for careful preparation. He was far as the British public is con- not certain that the precise. ma- cerned. Yet his declarations con- ment had arrived which would stitute a challenge which the ensure the success of this first step British Government and Lord in the coming revolution, but it Irwin, the Viceroy, unless they in- would be a guide the measure of tend to continue the vacillating its success would be a guide to him, policy they have pursued up to the for it is absolutely necessary," present, cannot conceivably ignore. he went on to explain, for the The fact that he prepons "when Person controlling such a move- the proper moment arrives" to pro-rent to keep himself in tone with ceed with his threatened national the voice of his followers, and there- campaign of civil disobedience, fore he must be as impervious to which will be tantamount to waging outside influences as he has to be a bloodless civil war-if such phono-sensitive to every little thing that mena were possible-was made goes on within."
I asked Gandhi if it, was not abundantly clear to me.
possible that he might yet be able to avoid the extreme measures to which he was proceeding. When he replied promptly in the affirma tive and said that the slightest gesture from the British Govern ment would work the miracle, I inquired what that gesture in his view should involve,
Wearing nothing but a crude grey shawl made by himself of home- apun cotton Aung over bis naked shoulders, and loose wooden aan- dals, he sat in squatting fashion" in the sand, and to the accompani- ment of the rhythmic hum of a tiny spinning wheel which he worked before him, slowly and with care- ful deliberation answered all the questions I put it to him one by
one.
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The Amazing Miss Slado.
The great trial of strength in this country is at hand," he asserted grimly, suspending his spinning for a moment to explain his meaning.
Events now depend entirely on the British Government, for we shall not in any circumstances, now or in the future, participate in any conference unless it is call, ed to consider our complete seces sion from. Great Britain,
The day has passed when we can accept anything less than that.
We are engaged, as the world must know, in a struggle for the absolute severance of the present We were alone aave for the pre-British connection, and we shall sence of one astonishing figure-an not rest until that nim has been Englishwoman, and daughter of a achieved. former British Admiral. She drove up in an old bullock cart as I ar-
"We have begun now. You shall find in every section of the land
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"Any real gesture from the British Government and the British people," he replied,, adding crypti cally, or any unexpected com- bination, spontaneous and healthy among ourselves, which would in itself constitute sufficient pressure to compel world attention, and not inerely the attention of the British people."
That meant, of course, combina.. tion with extremists, but "what kind of a gesture from Britain "I persisted.
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