"In India I saw what no one is likely to see again," reported Briton Brailsford. Later he was a leading writer of the Carnegie International Commission in the Balkans (1913), and editor of the New Leader (1922-26). Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford is a graduate of Glasgow University, where he remained for a time as assistant professor of Logic.
"Cold English Brains." A British journalist of standing lately revisited India and reported his finding to North American Newspaper Alliance. The British Empire was still wondering fearfully what to do about them all, the Empire's most staggering problem. Last week he was still there, and some 30,000 members of his Independence movement were caged elsewhere. It was in May that Britain jailed Gandhi at Poona. It was in March that he marched to the sea to defy Britain's salt tax as some New Englanders once defied a British tea tax. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence (TIME, Jan. He emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for a minor offense (gun-carrying), and though widely publicized manage to remain at large.Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. The year 1930 was a memorable one for the world's most potent criminal, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago. But Herr Hitler's flash in the pan has at least temporarily been smothered by old President Paul von Hindenburg. Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. Finally Stalin, who for years ruled Russia obscurely as a "political boss" (General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party), has just thrown off this mask, assumed public office for the first time during his dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. By "dumping" (or its practical equivalents) Stalin has sown uneasiness among "the enemy." With his ruthless Five-Year Plan he has wiped Unemployment from the map of Russia (as Scot MacDonald could not do in Britain). Surely one Statesman of the Year was Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili, called Stalin (pronounced Stahl-yn), Dictator of But they failed in what they tried to achieve-reduction of five navies-and had to compromise on limitation of three. Potential Statesmen of the Year were Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and those who helped him make the London Naval Treaty. But the work for which they were honored was done in other years. litterateur to receive the accolade, were Men of the Year. The Nobel Prize winners, especially the onetime newshawk Sinclair Lewis who is the first U. In winning the four major golf championships, Robert Tyre Jones Jr. But other great bankers carried great loads. Down there no man carried a bigger load, none fought the Boojum more effectively than Albert Henry Wiggin, sagacious, resourceful, confidence-inspiring board chairman of Chase National Bank.
Most worldwide concern of the year was the Depression, its U. To which of his fellowmen might a discerning citizen of the world point as Man of the Year?