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...front of the bier marched Gandhi's third and fourth sons, Ramdas and Devadas,* barefoot. It took almost five hours for the marchers to cover the six miles to the banks of the sacred river, Jumna. The surging crowd, which sometimes threatened to engulf the funeral procession, threw rose petals at the bier, shouted "Mahatma Gandhi ki jail"-"Victory to Great Soul Gandhi...
...Gandhi's weapon contained a measurable threat of violence in India. When Gandhi fasted, Britons sometimes dared not keep him in jail, lest a 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...
...their time organizing South Korean Communists, and setting up an elaborate espionage system headed by Anatole Ivanovich Shabshin, who was Russian vice consul in Seoul for eight years before the war. U.S. experts wondered when the Russians would feel that their North Korean puppets were strong enough to engulf South Korea without open Soviet help...
...conflict and disorder were sharpest. Throngs of wartime jobholders were idle. In sweltering Calcutta, it took but the flick of a Moslem cigaret butt against the flanks of a sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems had formerly lived mixed in together...
...world clamor for an economic embargo against Spain; Author Hughes does not believe them. His opinion is that the Kremlin wants the democracies to leave Franco in power only until the day comes when the Spanish people rise under Communist leadership (not now predominant in the underground) and engulf Army, Church, Falange-and the gateway to the Mediterranean...