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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 : Mr Gandhi you might tells us please when you expect to leave for London for the second Round Table : 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 : O yes Interviewer: Absolute : : And do you intend also to abolish child : I would very much like to even : If England does not grant your demands are you prepared to return to jail : I am always prepared to return to jail. Interviewer: Would you be prepared to die in the cause of I