Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as though wizened little St. Gandhi had never existed, India's Viceroy, his long legs encased in white kerseymere knee breeches, drove smiling through the streets of New Delhi to open the eleventh annual session of the Chamber of Princes. Bearded lancers with gay fluttering pennons trotted in front of his State carriage. A bodyguard perched behind holding a huge umbrella over the viceregal head...
...Learned that St. Gandhi's predominantly Hindu Indian National Congress had been joined in opposition to the British Raj last week by the All India Moslem Conference which passed a strong resolution at Lahore threatening "direct action" in the struggle for Indian freedom...
When U. S. citizens wearied of St. Gandhi, prominent U. S. newsfolk stopped covering India's fight for freedom, but last week famed Karl H. von Wiegand, sagacious Hearstling, cabled: "I have just traveled through India from the extreme southern part to Bombay and Allahabad in the North, more than 1,500 miles. "Talks with members of almost every class of Indians quickly reveal that feeling-even hatred-against the British, is intensifying. The current is steadily running deeper. "British of long residence in India frankly admitted that they fear a big explosion sooner or later. Some even touched...
...Gandhi and 26 of the most prominent Gandhites have been jailed without trial or opportunity to defend themselves...
When beauteous young Nilla Cram Cook, recent U. S. initiate to Mahatma Gandhi's sisterhood, went to worship in the Hindu Temple at Dwarka, out rushed crowds of native worshippers. Priests wailed that the temple had been "polluted." After a 24-hour interval and a purification ceremony costing $75, devotions were resumed...