GANDHI

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1936, Page 6

GANDHI

SAYS GOODBYE

ALLAHABAD, May 1

Mehatma Galidhi, leader for many years of the Indian Nationalist Movement, announced his retirement yesterday to a literary conference at Nftgnpurs. . He said that his “heart was still in Segaon,”' the little village in Central India, where he intends to live. Gandhi said that he would still be available for political consultation. A .frail, crooked-legged little man, barely five feet high, and weighing less than seven stone, his shaven skull has housed for years schemes designed to win India for the Indians.

He married at 131, studied law at London, but returned to India fs the champion of the “Untouchables.” ’ iHis civil disobedience campaign was fallowed by his imprisonment in 1030, and, despite his pacifist beliefs, strikes,, riots, and bloodshed were the forms of protest chosen by his followers. / Among his followers was an English girl' of aristocratic . parentage, Miss Slade, and Gandhi had the distinction of being the only man to be received at Buckingham Palace in a loin cloth. He lived in the simplest fashion, and spent hours a day at his cotton spin-ning-wheel. - Described as the greatest menace to British prestige east of Suez, Gandhi has nevertheless stood midway between reaction.and revolution.