The friend of Mahatma Gandhi born in East London | East London and West Essex Guardian Series
By Stephen Ayers Mahatma Gandhi with Elizabeth Fox Howard perhaps the woman standing second from left, at Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, in 1931. Photo: Kingsley Hall Elizabeth Fox Howard was a highly courageous woman, who became friends with Mahatma Gandhi and stood up to the Third Reich. She was not afraid to take risks to break down social barriers with kindness and to give compassionate support to the most vulnerable, when the state and the majority of society reviled and rejected them. She summed up her ethos as: 'Alongside the pu...
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