Fascinating early sound newsreel footage of Mahatma Gandhi speaking to an Associated Press foreign correspondent in 1931.
Gandhi with wife and Admiral Slade's daughter out for early morning walk. Sitting cross legged and answering questions put by questioner. Several CUs of him answering.Interviewer: Mr Gandhi you might tells us please when you expect to leave for London for the second Round Table Conference.Gandhi: I have no notion. And I don't expect to go there if the Hindu Muslim question is not satisfactorily solved. Interviewer: If England grants your demands Mr Gandhi do you intend to have complete prohibition in the new Indian States.Gandhi: O yes Interviewer: Absolute prohibition.Gandhi: Absolute.Interviwer: And do you intend also to abolish child marriages.Gandhi: I would very much like to even before.Interviewer: If England does not grant your demands are you prepared to return to jail again.Gandhi: I am always prepared to return to jail. Interviewer: Would you be prepared to die in the cause of Indias independence.Gandhi: It is a bad question.Interviewer: If you go to the second Round Table Conference will you go in native Indian dress or will you prefer European dress.Gandhi: I shall certainly not be found in European dress and if the weather permitted er I should present myself exactly as I am today. Interviewer: And if the King of England invited you to dinner at Buckingham Palace you would go in customary Indian dress.Gandhi: In any other dress I should be most discourteous to him because I should be artificial.
Gandhi interviewed by foreign correspondent James A. Mills of The Associated Press. Movietone is present at an interview given by Indian leader to a representative of the American Press.
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