Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive anger at his death in their hands engulf India. "I always get my best bargains behind prison bars," he once chuckled. When Gandhi fasted, Moslem, Hindu and Untouchable leaders had to promise to work better together, lest that anger of the masses be directed against them. No communal group, not the mighty British Raj itself, dared have Gandhi's blood on its hands...
Hindus, not Moslems, stoned Gandhi's house when he went to Calcutta to encourage communal peace last August. On his 78th birthday, Oct. 2, Gandhi spoke sadly: "Why do I receive all these congratulations? . . . The time was when whatever I said, the masses followed. But today I am a lone voice in India." In November, a TIME correspondent went to see him. Gandhi said: "Can you squat?" The reporter squatted. Gandhi at one point in the interview said: "Three hundred years is as nothing." He returned to the present: "The fear haunts me that India must yet go through...
...emotion swept India. With newspapers and radios carrying hourly bulletins of his sinking condition, Delhi's frayed citizens began to organize meetings and processions around the single motto: "Save Gandhi's life." Post-office employees stamped on every letter mailed in New Delhi the message: "Keep communal peace and save Mahatma Gandhi...
...moment, Jewish guns and bombs were speaking more loudly than the Arabs'. Last week Haganah militiamen, in steel helmets and khaki uniforms, began systematic retaliation against Arabs. In communal fights, Palestine's death toll swelled...
Foreign travel, reconstruction work abroad, and communal living as a member of a European family are some of the summer opportunities to be described tonight by Donald Watt, director of the Experiment in International Living, Inc. at 7:30 o'clock in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House...