Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Viceroy of India (1921-26) he steered a course midway between the stiffness of Lord Chelmsford and the conciliatory attitude of Lord Irwin. He was the first Viceroy to put Gandhi in jail, first to impose the despised salt tax, first to enforce the Indian Constitution...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg. 85; Richard B. Harrison (God in The Green Pastures), 68; Oscar (Waldorf) Tschirky, 66; Mahatma Gandhi, 63; King Christian of Denmark, 62; Charles ("Gabby'') Street...
...Gandhi IF. In the United Kingdom, where statesmen observe the Friday-to-Monday week-end quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British?if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which...
What agreement was reached in final frantic haste, His Majesty's Government and censors, left unclear last week, stressing instead the great fact that the agreement had satisfied Mahatma Gandhi. It was said that to the agreement proper His Majesty's Government appended "certain reservations"?and the Kingdom of Egypt is regulated from London by means of "reservations" inserted when His Majesty's Government "recognized it as an independent sovereign State" in 1922. Observers could assume no more than that Mr. Gandhi had received convincing assurances that the caste barriers (which he has fought so long to break down...
...even in the sense that Canada is democratic and mistress of herself under the Crown. When Indians vote under a new Constitution which is being slowly evolved, their elected representatives will still be subordinate to the London Parliament?unless Mother India wins another and far greater victory than Mahatma Gandhi won last week...