News of the Week
Mr.Gandhi AVERY strange duel of manoeuvre is going on between the Government of India and Mr. Gandhi. Nobody can foretell the outcome, but it should not be assumed that the inventions of the Hindu mind which seem extraordinarily unreal to us will be ineffective for their purpose. As everyone knows, Mr. Gandhi has fixed upon the Salt Tax as the token of British.despotism_an: odd choice, one might say, since the tax upon the individual Indian amounts to only about 8d. a year. He decided-to violate the law by infringing the Government monopoly. So far as the duel has been conducted, it is obviously the wish of Mr. Gandhi to be arrested in order that he may be able to dramatize the whole situation, and it is equally the wish of the Government not to allow Mr. Gandhi-td profit by this stroke. * * *
