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...Cross. Gandhi still had one more weapon left. If nothing else, Gandhi's powerful personality had escaped from seven months' enforced obscurity in jail. Within his philosophical creed of Satyagraha, which calls on the power of "love and true knowledge" to overcome all difficulties, he might still hope to "melt the hearts" of his enemies...
Crowds gathered outside the Palace each day, peeping through the grilled gates to the sunburned lawns and neglected flower beds. They caught no glimpse of Gandhi but they felt closer to him. Other Gandhi followers, disavowing the Mahatma's creed of nonviolence, rioted, stoned police, burned state buildings. These uprisings increased as the fast progressed, threatened to disrupt a stable wartime economy on which both British and American armed forces are dependent. But the Raj was prepared to meet this type of unrest. The only effective weapon left to Gandhi's badly battered Congress party was a fast...
...creed for those who must depopulate...
...fight against the capitalists, the bloated moneybags who fattened on the poor man's labor. It was almost as though on this New Year's Day he was trying, as he did when Naziism was only a party, to win his people over to the Nazi creed: >"Russia . . . prepared her world struggle in the name of socialist states, with the support of capitalist countries, against . . . socialist Germany. >"Whatever pretext our enemies used . . . the fundamental cause was always the same: hatred against a strong German Reich . . . and their universal capitalist interests in war as such. ... All their statesmen...
...expected to draft a platform that would: 1) attack the Liberal Party where it is most vulnerable (pussyfooting on basic war problems); 2) woo enough diverse support to capitalize on the expected post-war reaction to the present Liberal regime, As a starter, the party approved a four-point creed...