Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented Friend Irwin: "Gandhi is now speaking in a language the Indian people understand. If I were to get out in the hallway of the government buildings at New Delhi, squat on the floor and refuse to eat a bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in a few days. Of course, before those few days could elapse my Liberal, Conservative and Labor colleagues in London would send for me to come home and would have a padded cell waiting for me on my arrival...
Migrating monkeys swarmed screeching into the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last week, disturbed the repose of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and Lady Willingdon, made more trouble for the police than do St. Gandhi's non-violent Nationalists. Treating the monkeys exactly like Gandhites, police riot squads drove them out of town with lathis (long staves) every day. But every night the monkeys crept back to plague New Delhi, caused the United Press to report that "monkeys dominated the city...
Legally dominant, the Viceroy demanded that New Delhi's Municipal Council do something about the monkeys. They could, one Councilman proposed, be penned up in wire enclosures (like Gandhites). The Council called this scheme "impractical," temporized, waited to see if Nature would not tell the monkeys to get on with their migration...
After the durbar the Khan showed the Viceroy his stud farm at Mastung. Thence Lord & Lady Willingdon hastened back east to their capital, New Delhi...
...trying to prevent the Gandhite Indian National Congress from holding its 49th session at New Delhi. Fifteen minutes after she left Bombay the Congress President, famed Indian Poetess Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, was arrested. Her successor as President, India's revered Pandit Mohan Malavija, was arrested as he reached New Delhi along with 369 delegates to the Congress. These arrests (in the opinion of British officials at the Vice-regal Capital) placed under lock & key in various parts of India some 50,000 followers of the Mahatma "including all who are nationally known...