Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efforts to discredit the Mahatma on the eve of his fast ranged from official British announcements that he was being fitted with a new set of false teeth to the instinctive act of a British showman who cabled Mr. Gandhi a cash offer to come to England and starve unto Death as a sideshow freak. "Your case, right or wrong," cabled Showman Luke Gannon, "will then be understood by the people of England...
...stern contrast was a pronouncement by the Leader of the Labor Party and of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons. "There is nothing to be gained by speaking of Mr. Gandhi as a fanatic," said Leader George Lansbury. "There can be no peace in India without a collaboration of Mr. Gandhi and his Indian National Congress Party...
...cell Mr. Gandhi placidly told his British jailers that he defied them to eject him on the "humiliating terms" that he must be detained in some other place. As to his fast the Mahatma appeared cheerful...
...maintained by Germany's Fascists, Socialists and Steel Helmets. Perhaps Germans will obey for a while longer the absolute will of Paul von Hindenburg who celebrates his 85th birthday next fortnight. Commented Karl H. von Wiegand, No. 1 German Hearstman: "There is one man in Germany who, like Gandhi, wants nothing for himself but everything for his country: Hindenburg...
...casual observer India and her problems present a confused tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...