Word: bose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subhas Chandra Bose, top left-winger in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's All-India National Congress, twice Party President and persistent threat to Mahatma Gandhi's leadership, has been sentenced eleven times to British jails. Last week he was beyond British grasp. India's Council of State announced officially that he "has gone over to the enemy" and signed an Axis pact inviting India's invasion. Guessed the Council: He is probably already in Berlin or Rome...
Since wealthy onetime Indian National Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose was jailed last July, becoming the first big-time martyr of Mohandas Gandhi's new drive for Indian self-determination, he has been itching to get back into action. In November he thought up a perfectly legal device. Elected a member of the Indian Legislative Assembly, he requested release long enough for the formal swearing-in ceremony. But the British Raj flatly denied the appeal...
...found his bed empty and no sign of their master anywhere. Worried relatives suspected kidnapping, or suicide touched off by an unbalanced mind. But the wary Government issued a special warrant for his rearrest, anxiously awaited new signs of civil disobedience directed from underground by sharp-witted Subhas Chandra Bose...
...arrest followed the pattern which since October has resulted in the jailing of some 5,000 Indians, including the President of the Indian National Congress (Abul Kalam Mohiyuddin Ahmed Azad), three onetime Presidents (Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Mrs. Sarojini Nai-du), four former Prime Ministers of Indian provinces, eleven former Ministers, five speakers of provincial legislatures, seven members of the Congress Working Committee (Cabinet) and 100-odd members of the Congress Executive Committee-practically every important Congress leader except Mohandas Gandhi himself...
Lord Linlithgow responded to the new situation with a crackdown. He ordered the arrest of Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Congress Party's violent left wing and fiercest challenger of the war effort for Britain. Long a thorn not only in Britain's but also in Gandhi's side (since his precipitousness upset many patient Gandhi plans), Subhas Bose is used to suppression. He has been interned no less than eleven times. Chubby, sickly, stubborn as an untrained elephant, and India's radical leader, Bose was elected president of the Congress Party in 1939, only...