A British Lawyer's Thirteen-Word Insult Handed Gandhi His Stage
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A British Lawyer's Thirteen-Word Insult Handed Gandhi His Stage

A British lawyer's offhand insult in 1908 accidentally handed Gandhi the one thing no protest movement can manufacture: a martyr's stage.

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