Mahatma Gandhi Footage Collection (1920)

May 1931: "Mahatma Gandhi Talks" - Gandhi interview with an US news reporter

May, 1931: "Mahatma Gandhi Talks" - Gandhi interview with an US news reporter. Fox Movietone News brings to you the first talking picture ever made by India's famous leader, given exclusively to us at his at his home in Borsad". US-American journalist speaks to army person; Gandhi walking with his wife Kasturba and associates; interview with the journalist.

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Interview with US Journalist



In an interview with an US-American journalist Gandhi said in summer 1931:



Journalist: "Mr. Gandhi, you may tell 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."



Journalist: "If England agreed to your demands, Mr. Gandhi, do you intend to keep complete prohibition in the new Indian states?"



Gandhi: "Oh yes."



Journalist: "Absolute prohibition?"



Gandhi: "Absolute."



Journalist: "And do you intend also, if India wins its independence, to abolish child marriages?"



Gandhi: "I should very much like to, even before."



Journalist: "If England was not fulfilling your demands are you prepared to return to jail again?"



Gandhi: "I am always prepared to return to jail."



Journalist: "Would you be prepared to die in the cause of India's independence?"



Gandhi: "This is a bad question."



Journalist: "If you go to the second Round Table Conference will you go attired in your native Indian dress or will you prefer European dress?"



Gandhi: "I shall certainly not be found in European dress and if the weather permitted I should present myself exactly as I am today."



Journalist: "And if the King of England invited you to dinner at Buckingham Palace, you wouldn't go in your customary Indian dress?"



Gandhi:"In any other dress I should be most discourteous to him because I should be artificial."