WE have said that the Mahatma’s decision to retain his leadership is half-hearted and tentative, and that, judging from his two articles in Young India, the peace made between the two parties at Ahmedabad is no real lasting peace, but...
APART from their wonderful lucidity and force, the great distinction of Mahatma Gandhi’s public utterances have always appeared to us to consist in this, that there is no pose in them, no make-believe, no straining after-effect, that every word he...
WHILE the country is waiting with bated breath for the detailed impressions of the Mahatma regarding the last meeting of the All India Congress Committee, at which he was himself the central figure, it is only natural that the somewhat...
AS there is a tendency in some quarters to do exactly that with regard to the result of the last meeting of the All-India Congress Committee against which we have considered it our duty to sound a note of warning...
WE venture to think that it would be entirely wrong to think of the result of the most momentous session of the All-India Congress Committee ever held in terms of the victory of one party or the defeat of another....
THE Cattle and Milk Protection Bill of which Pandit Sham Lal Nehru, MLA (Swarajist), has given notice will, if passed by the Assembly, go a long way to ameliorate the condition of small peasant proprietors and effectually reduce the rate...
IF there is one word which could correctly describe the purport and tendency of the open letter which Mahatma Gandhi has just addressed to the members of the All India Congress Committee, that word is ‘uncompromising’. There is much in...
WE confess we do not find Mahatma Gandhi’s latest statement regarding the Congress situation, made to an Associated Press interviewer, more reassuring than his previous statements on the same subject. Undoubtedly, Mahatmaji is emphatic in the avowal of his belief...
IN a recent issue, we took note of an article contributed to a British newspaper by one of our leading “irreconcilables”, which closed with the significant observation that if worth the price which Great Britain may have to pay in...
THUS wrote the Statesman of Calcutta in a leading article:– “Rabindranath Tagore has lately given expression to a growing sense of solidarity in Asia, and as might be expected, he puts before Asiatics a very lofty ideal, expressing his own...
IN a signed article under the heading ‘The acid test’ in the latest issue of Young India, Mahatma Gandhi gives an explanation of his position with regard to the several resolutions that he proposes to move at the forthcoming meeting...
IN dealing with the very important motion of which Mr Lansbury has given notice in the House of Commons, urging that a humble address be presented to His Majesty, praying him to cause the removal of Mr Justice McCardie from...
CR Das has made as good a defence of the action of the Bengal Provincial Conference in passing what has come to be known as the Gopinath Saha resolution as it was possible for anyone to make. Still, it is...
Everything goes to show that the forthcoming meeting of the All-India Congress Committee will be one of the most important in the history of that body and of the Congress. The agenda is not only interesting but also exciting. Some...
THERE can no longer be any doubt that on the important question of Congress organisation as on several other equally important questions, the Swarajya party and its leaders differ radically, if not fundamentally, from Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatmaji, as our readers...
We desire to accord a sincere and wholehearted welcome to the revised rules of the Swarjya party. “Revised rules”, indeed, is scarcely the name for the change which is now announced. It is a radical, at any rate a very...
UNLESS the necessarily condensed report of Mr Justice McCardie’s summing up of the case to the jury has done him grievous injustice, it is perfectly clear that in his anxiety to sit in judgment upon the Hunter Committee, the Government...
IF the preamble to the memorandum which some of our distinguished countrymen, now in England in one capacity or another, have prepared for presentation to the India office, is unexceptionable, so is the actual demand made in it. To the...
THE question as to who should or should not form part of the Congress Executive has for the last few days been engaging the serious attention of Mahatma Gandhi and that large section of political India which owes allegiance to...
WE cannot say that either the Assembly or the country has gained anything by the passing of a resolution by the former at its meeting on Monday, adjourning the discussion on the Lee Commission’s report till the September session. The...
HOWEVER much Sir Michael O’Dwyer and his friends, both in England and India, may congratulate themselves on the victory they have won in the famous suit that has just been disposed of, no impartial man, no man at any rate...
IF Mr Justice McCardie’s whitewashing of Gen Dyer and of the whole body of wrong-doers under Martial Law was as bold a piece of judicial special pleading and absurdity as any Judge ever made himself responsible for, his whitewashing of...
THE most sensational Indian case that has ever come up before an English court has ended exactly as all previous cases of the same general category ended. The Englishman who was a party to the suit has won all along...
AFTER a protracted hearing, the O’Dwyer-Nair libel case came to a close on Thursday last. Sir Michael O’Dwyer has won the case and has been awarded damages. No one in India, no one at any rate who followed the latest...
WHEN we turn from the Mahatma’s analysis of the causes responsible for the present Hindu-Muslim tension to the remedies suggested by him, we are at once struck by their undue generality and their obvious inadequacy. Practically, the only remedy suggested...
THE current issue of Young India has a remarkable article from the pen of Mahatma Gandhi. It is a fairly long article, but by no means too long, considering the nature of the subject (Hindu-Muslim tension) and the variety of...
NEW DELHI’s refusal to be overawed by some foreign donor’s threat to cut off aid is a measure of economic and political maturity. Development and other aid without strings has always been welcome, but Mrs Gandhi has made it clear...
SIR Malcolm Hailey, who on Saturday took charge of this province from Sir Edward MacLagan at Bombay, has already reached his summer capital and assumed the reins of office. No one can say that His Excellency has come to a...
AS might have been expected, the announcement of the Government of India’s decision to appoint a Committee to enquire into the working of the reforms has fallen flat upon the country. The public feels that at a time when it...
TODAY at Bombay, Sir Edward MacLagan hands over the charge of the administration, of which he has been the head during the last five years. The period has been one of great storm and stress, and no one who has...