MEETING GANDHI.
LORD LOTHIAN IN INDIA. (United Press . A asociation— Copyright.! ' LONDON, Jari: 20." The Bombay correspondent: of : jp “The Times” says that political circles -are showing great interest in the Marquess of. Lothian’s conversations with. Mahatma Gandhi at Sheogaon, Central Provinces, where he is living in a mud hut adjoining Gandhi’s, and is partaking, of the same food as members of Gandhi’s settlement.
Interviews with Gandhi last only an hour daily owing to his poor health. w >/ •'sr >- r.r:.
Loi(d Lothiqn,,..; ; \ylu? .ujas. ; lioru, in 1882, was one. .pLfcbe brjlliani ;scsmg men who assisted -Lord. -Milner, iiji - the task of pacification "at tiie close df the South African war. After a distinguished! career in South Africa he returned to London, where he became editor of the “Round Table” in 1910 and, in 1916, Secretary,-.to the (? Prime Minister (Mr Lloyd'George). ""Retiring from political work when the Peace Treaty was concluded; rdeydted himself to Christian Science.
He was Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary to the India Office ; .gnd chairman.' I '.': of- the Ipdiari in India,''lre.;, travelled J 689 miles in that-country as chairman of,, .the committee. Lord Lothian was the central figure ;in an incident in Bengal where the committee was met by a crowd shouting, “Go back, Lothian.” Mingling with them, he elicited their views on the franchise problem, whereupon jeers were replaced by" cheers. Later, hearing that some of the demonstrators had been a!frested, -he secured their release. Lord Lothian earned the gratitude of Moslems by securing the return to India of a holy robe on which is ! s'aid to be inscribd the- whole of the Koran. Since 1923 he has been secretary of the Rhodes Trust. ">■' ' : £:
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 87, 22 January 1938, Page 5
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