Foreign News: Pandit Passes

As it must to make a man a martyr, Death came last week at Lucknow to 69-year-old Pandit Motilal Nehru, executive genius of the Indian Nationalist party of which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the afflatus.

Afflatus Gandhi came two days before to Lucknow with Pandit Motilal Nehru in order that the latter might have x-ray treatment. He died of a lingering illness, aggravated (many of his friends maintain) by repeated British doses of imprisonment.

One hundred thousand Indians surrounded the funeral pyre of Martyr Motilal Nehru when it was presently set up at Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and the Holy River Ganges. The calm and temperate dead man’s fiery and reckless son, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus Gandhi when the pyre was lighted. “I said to him not long before he died,” Gandhi told the multitude, ” ‘My dear friend, we will surely win home rule, if you survive this crisis.’ “He replied, ‘Why, you’ve already won home rule!’ ‘: In the excitement not a few were trampled.