Indications of Partial Reversion to Gandhiism Gauhati, Dec, 29.
'The session of the Indian National Congress concluded to-day. The' resolutions adopted indicate a part back-drift to Gandhiism, for example, the resolution passed that members of the Congress must habitually wear khcddar or homespun cloth.
On the occasion of the eelebratignt of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton and Washington's famous crossing of the Deleware River, President Coolidge, in an, Jaddress at q dinner of the 'Trenton' Historical Society this evening, d clared that the Americans wanted peace and could not escape great sacrifices to secure it—sometim for the purpose of providing ad~ equate national defence, sometinies through international covenants sind by limiting the scope of their mille tary forces.
He did not believe that they could advance to a policy of peace by return to a policy of competitive armaments and, while he favoured an adequate Army and Navy, he was opposed to any effort to mille tarize the nation.
Americans could render no better service to humanity than to' exert all their influence to prevent the world from slipping back into the grasp of that ravaging altind was strong' and. brave Fesist any attempt at domination of the President asserted,
the world Ly a military spirit Reuter.
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