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Mohandas Gandhi released from jail...
Mohandas Gandhi released from jail...
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May 06, 1944
THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, NY, May 6, 1944
* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
* The Mahatma jail release
This 30 page newspaper has a 2 column headline on the front page: "Gandhi Freed Unconditionally; British Act on Health Grounds".
Other news of the day with much on World War II.
Rag edition in great condition.
wikipedia notes: Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the British on 9 August 1942. Gandhi was held for two years in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune. It was here that Gandhi suffered two terrible blows in his personal life. His 50-year old secretary Mahadev Desai died of a heart attack 6 days later and his wife Kasturba died after 18 months imprisonment in 22 February 1944; six weeks later Gandhi suffered a severe malaria attack. He was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery; the Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation.
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