Gandhi's Goat

Before he left Bombay for London (TIME, Aug. 24), St. Gandhi protested loud and long that he expected nothing whatever to come of the Indian Round Table Conference. Last week while the conference, hopelessly hung up on the problem of Hindu-Moslem representation, still struggled on, he quietly booked passage to sail back to India the middle of November.

Meanwhile in the English Dairy Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall the benign nanny goat that provides Mahatma Gandhi with his goat's milk defeated all comers in her class, had a blue ribbon hung about her scrawny neck and was officially named "Mahatma." Chief concrete result of the human Mahatma's visit is that in London the price of goats and goat's milk has gone up. At Kingsley Hall, where St. Gandhi sleeps and spins, a secretary disclosed that during the first days of his visit goat's milk was hard to get and cost about four shillings ($1) a pint, could be found only in wholesale apothecary shops dealing in roots, herbs and obscure drugs.

At the week's end St. Gandhi departed for Eton to address the pink-cheeked, tail-coated Sixth Form.

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