The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-08-21
Dramatic Action Held Essential
If Candbi Wishes A Comeback
Confines Activities Deal
ing With Campaign To
Emancipate Social Out
casts

BOMBAY. India, Aug. 2I.-
Mahatma GAndhi's pledge to the
British government to refrain
from ell Political activity against
the Crown for = period of a year,
IN return for his release from
prison. expires in August.
Since he was liberated last
year after his threat to "fast
anto DEATH" the worlds most
fsmous aoR-violent rebel has been
o. HE good Behavior combining
himself to his campaign to eman-
siPass midas 100000 "Un-
teushables" (sOeiaI outeasts).
Up TO the present the little
Hindu mystic. whose SO-year bat
tle for midas liberty has cost the
British government tens of mil
liens Of dollars. has given no in
dication what form his new de-
fiancc Of the British empire will
take when his pledge of good
conduct" expires. But he has an
nounced repeatedly that he will
''die fighting the British"
Some Of the 66-year-old leaders
friends think he soon will attempt
10 plunge India into another
''non-violent and bloOdless"
revolution. with the deadly boy
eott Of British goods as an added
weapon. This would doubtless
lead 81 Gandhi's immediate ar
rest. ~ well as the imprisonment
Of thousands Of his followers.
imprisonment Held Futile
Others believe India's ''holy
rebel will content himself with
campaign Of passive resistance"
and spccchmaking. avoiding any
direct violation of the law which
might cause the vieeroy to order
bis arrest. Gandhi has already
served seven terms in prison, and
h said 20 be convinced of the
futility of further time spent be-
hind stone walls.
SIM others among the Ma
hatma's friends think this famous
son Of Mother India will bury the
hmtehet with John Bull, at least
temporarily. In order to give the
British authorities "A chance to
work cut their proposed reforms
IN midas charter. They think
that In the meantime Gandhi will
continue his work for the enamel
patton Of midas "Untouehables."
which has the sanction of the
British government.
IN any case. foreign observers
here feel that IL midas diminutive
'soldier of humanity" wishes to
stage a comeback in the public
eye. be- must do something dra-
matie. something different from
his previous tactics.
They say that even Gandhi's
eWn followers are tired of the Ma
hatma's fasts. his threats to
ssnrve himself. his repeated dia-
tribes against the British govern
ment. his constant urging of the
Indian masses to go back to the
primitive age of hand industry
and 10 ban everything foreign. All
these formulate have been tried,
foreign commentators here say,
and India seems to be as far away
from real home rule as ever.
Militant Leadership Sought
That Gandhi has been losing
ground steadily since his last
strange act in threatening to fast
unto death because of his dissatis-
faction with the British prison
regime. i admitted even by many
~ hls supporters. They point to
the recent repeated attempts of
Indian hot-heads to kill him. Even
his campaign to wipe out the
curse ~ "untouehability," midas
greatest evil. has earned him many
enemies. for the higher caste Hin
dus are by no means agreed that
ths lower strata of Indians should
have equal privileges and stand