GANDHI’S FAST

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1943, Page 6

GANDHI’S FAST

LONDON PRESS. SUSPICIOUS LONDON, March 4. “The Times’s” Delhi correspondent says: It is a common belief that Gandhi’s doctors since February 21 had been feeding him in one way or another, and that his recovery from his grave condition, reported then, was “an act of glucose” rather than an act of God, which the Indian Nationalist Press is now trying to make out. The correspondent adds: Gandhi suffers from blood pressure. Consequently he frequently undergoes a nature cure, consisting o± a fast, tempered by lime juice _ and salines. On January 18 Gandhi was reported to be in the throes of progressive uraemia. A method of countering uraemia is the administration of glucose and more salines. Nevertheless, despite the seriousness of Gandhi’s condition, there have been no disclosures that his doctors have been resorting to this. The “Daily Mail,” in a leading article, says: The hocus-pocus built up around Gandhi’s three weeks’ fast is over, and the whole business is a dismal failure from his viewpoint. The old man who so skilfully has many times taken in public opinion, has at last met his Waterloo. The days of appeasement are over. Unless Gandhi ranges beside the United Nations, he will suffer an eclipse, because only those who have helped towards victory will be listened to after the war. GANDHI’S GRATITUDE POONA, March 3. After breaking his fast, Gandhi said he was most thankful to the doctors “for serving me so well, but I feel there must be something higher than the power of the doctors which saved me.”

DOMINIONS’ CITIZENS

NEW DELHI, March 3

The Indian Central Assembly has passed a bill giving British Dominions’ citizens in India no greater rights than those allowed Indians in the Dominions. The bill was moved by a Nationalist member, and was supported by all sections, including the Government.