Word: allahabad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shuffling of camel pads pounded softly near a great cream-colored mansion in Allahabad where the white, gold and green flag of the Indian National Congress party flirted with the wind. Here was dignity and beauty. Here, in the mansion built by his father, Jawaharlal Nehru knew that there was refuge from the world...
Nehru & the World. In his last interview before returning to his "other home," Nehru told TIME Correspondent Theodore White what he might have explained in a U.S. broadcast. Above him in the reception room of the Allahabad mansion were pictures of his father, Motilal Nehru, a signed photograph of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, a photograph of Sun Yat-sen and Madame Sun. Gone was Nehru's laughter and the jokes he had made with the Chiangs last spring when they conferred on world problems in a villa at New Delhi. Great masses of flowers had been in bloom...
August 7. Just as they struck first at week's end, the British struck hard earlier in the week with the revelation of documents seized last April in a raid on the Congress party headquarters at Allahabad. These documents were used to prove that Gandhi at that time had planned, as the first act of Indian independence, to negotiate for peace with Japan. Nehru and Gandhi promptly noted that the raid was illegal, claimed that the documents were misinterpreted by the British to influence...
...Allahabad meeting went on to show that the Congress is still a kernel of rice in the palm of Gandhi's wizened hand. In the end the Working Committee majority decided to urge India's masses to face the Japanese with Gandhi's historic policy of Satyagraha (resistance by nonviolent non-cooperation...
...Working Committee of India's largest political body, the Indian National Congress party, met in excited conclave in northern Allahabad. At night red flares cast a feverish light on the white-clad throng, and neither palm-leaf fans nor the cold water served in clay cups could cool the argument...