Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site chosen was in virgin territory, some 200 miles north of Bombay and eleven miles from the nearest railway. It was on the vast estates of fierce-mustached, smoldering-eyed, trembling-lipped Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of mild Saint Gandhi's wealthiest followers. As might be expected, this great mogul, scion of a rich Bombay family of landed proprietors, is no radical. He insists that "In accordance with ancient Indian tradition we must see that the landlord ever remains the father and guardian of his tenants!" But although he is violently opposed to the Socialistic tenets of many...
...thousand Indians soon began work on the 3,000-acre Congress City site, many of them volunteers toiling for love of Saint Gandhi & Mother India. Last November the timetable of the builders was badly upset when the Tapti River unseasonably rose in flood, and failed for six long weeks to subside. During this time it was impossible to ferry across the angry waters the pipe and corrugated iron sheeting needed for the Congress City. The Congressman in charge of the work, Mr. Nanda Lai Bose, a dry goods merchant by profession, went upriver in search of a shallow ford, discovered...
...Land to the People!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, acting through the Viceregal Government at New Delhi and the British provincial governors in India, has been quietly active against Saint Gandhi & Co. for several months. On April 1, 1937 the provinces of British India came under the new Indian Constitution, which was chiefly the work of Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, June 29, 1936). It had been planned that on April 1, 1938 the Indian states which are still ruled by native princes should enter, under the Constitution, into an All-India Federation, and next winter George VI was to have been...
Today the India Office is afraid to let Their Majesties go to New Delhi even for a visit, let alone a Durbar. The princes are afraid that if they join the All-India Federation their states will be overrun with radical Gandhi Congressmen and preachers of sedition, with or without violence. The Indian National Congress, which opposes Federation tooth & nail, is afraid that if the native states are permitted to come in under the Constitution the entire All-India Federation will be a setup so rigid that it may take generations to overthrow the Rajas, Maharajas and Nawabs...
Chamberlain Scores. As a curtain raiser to the Congress City palaver, Mr. Gandhi, in his political capacity of Boss, fortnight ago ordered the native premiers of the United Provinces and Bihar to resign with their cabinets. They obeyed. The two cabinets were composed of Congress members, and the ostensible reason for Saint Gandhi's orders was the "scandalous action" of the two local British governors in "refusing the advice" of the two premiers that the jails of the United Provinces and Bihar be opened. The refusal was in accord with the safeguarding clause of the Indian Constitution, and fairly...