GANDHI’S FUTURE
MAY DESERT POLITICS INFLUENCE NOW ON THE WANE A BROKEN VOW (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Calcutta, July 19. Gandhi may soon be lost to Indian politics. To-day he astonished India by suddenly going into his Ashram “haven of refuge” at Ahmadabad, thus breaking the vow he made two years ago that he would not return to Ashram until “India has gained her freedom.” His action is taken to mean that he has decided to give up politics and devote the rest of his life to meditation and prayer. There is no doubt that Gandhi realizes that the bulk of the country is against him in his decision that civil disobedience should continue. The leaders and the newspapers throughout the country declare that there is no excuse for civil disobedience, and Qandhi, seeing his influence is waning, has probably decided to make a strategic retreat before the whole edifice of his popularity crumbles.
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Southland Times, Issue 22073, 21 July 1933, Page 7
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154GANDHI’S FUTURE Southland Times, Issue 22073, 21 July 1933, Page 7
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