Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stringent Indian Civil Disobedience Ordinances which were due to expire July 3 will be extended indefinitely; 2) that Indians, whether they like it or not, will receive a Federal Constitution and a set of state constitutions all enacted "as a single bill" by the London Parliament. Ignoring St. Gandhi and the entire Indian Nationalist movement, Sir Samuel thus served notice that steamroller tactics will be used in "granting India a greater measure of freedom...
Mirabai, better known as Miss Madeleine Slade, St. Gandhi's caretaker and most devoted disciple, who came out of prison fortnight ago, gave her first Press interview last week. Everyone knows that she, a tall, grave woman with a gentle voice and a delicate, jet-black mustache, was the daughter of Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade; that she gave up a position in British society for which she does not seem particularly suited to seek spiritual peace caring for the Mahatma. Until last week she never told her own story...
...began to seek light. I found it when I met Remain Holland, the great French philosopher. He advised me if I wanted to do the utmost good in the world to join Mr. Gandhi. ... I went to Switzerland and for a year lived in seclusion with the poorest Swiss peasants. I studied spinning and weaving, I familiarized myself with Hindustani. I read all Mahatma Gandhi's works. . . . Then I came to India, landing at Bombay where many years previously I had been a social butterfly...
...Mahatma Gandhi I felt I ... had met my parent. ... It was like finding something that I had lost. . . . The political side of Gandhi is the least part of him. As a moral teacher and reformer the world has not known his equal since Buddha and Christ. He made no attempt to convert me from Christianity. I am not an orthodox Hindu. The Mahatma did not baptize me or immerse me in the holy Ganges, as has been reported. Gandhi hates conversion and believes that all religions are good...
...Despite criticism B. B. C. has broadcast both sides of the Soviet and Indian questions, but St. Gandhi was not heard by British listeners though he broadcast from London to the U. S. and Canada...