Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck under the knife anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under the direction of British officials methodically clubbed and booted rank after rank of the Mahatma's supine, unresisting followers. Says Reporter Miller: "I felt an indefinable sense of helpless rage and loathing, almost...
...Empire's greatest jobs, that of Viceroy & Governor General of India. This tall, strongly-built and stanch lowlander arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin to understand it just as his five years as Viceroy were up, a misfortune which has more than once occurred...
...Christ at the Round Table, The Christ of Every Road, The Christ on the Mount, Christ and Human Suffering. In 1928 the Methodist Episcopal Church elected Dr. Jones a bishop. He immediately resigned, preferring to pursue a calling which kept him in contact wi:h Brahmin Saint Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Poet Rabindranath Tagore. the Maharaja Gaekwar Sir Sayaji Rao III of Baroda...
...accepted their new Constitution as poets accept the structure of a sonnet. It is utterly a thing imposed by London, but within its frame a talented people of wanglers and weaselers can perform all sorts of feats of freedom: within the Empire, and not with "dominion status" as St. Gandhi had demanded of the statesman in the Baby Austin...
Recently, when Sir Samuel's policy of making peace between Italy and Ethiopia crashed and he resigned as Foreign Secretary (TIME, Dec. 30), Mr. Gandhi was prompt with a letter of personal sympathy posted to No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. Sir Samuel's prompt decision to resign then was, last week in British eyes, a symbol of the qualities of firmness which should make him a great First Lord. In contrast to this, his successor as Foreign Secretary, young Anthony Eden, cut a sorry figure in the House of Commons as his Sanctionist policy crashed...