Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210
unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he
personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But
Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been
smothered by old President Paul von Hindenburg.
The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world's most
potent criminal, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago. He
emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for minor
offense (gun-carrying), and though widely publicized managed to
remain at large.
Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the
little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history
will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve
months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Indian National
Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence. It
was in March that he marched to the sea to defy Britain's salt
tax as some New Englanders once defied a British tea tax. It was
in May that Britain jailed Gandhi at Poona. Last week he was
still there, and some 30,000 members of his Independence
movement were caged elsewhere. The British Empire was still
wondering fearfully what to do about them all, the Empire's most
staggering problem.
"Cold English Brains." A British journalist of standing
lately revisited India and reported his findings to North
American Newspaper Alliance. Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford is
a graduate of Glasgow University, where he remained for a time
as assistant professor of Logic. Later he was a leading writer
for the Manchester Guardian, a member of the Carnegie
International Commission in the Balkans (1913), and editor of
the New Leader (1922-26).
"In India I saw what no one is likely to see again,"
reported Briton Brailsford. "Bombay obeyed two governments.
