Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi: Only God gives encouragement, not Kings...
Badgered by correspondents to tell what his host had talked about, Guest Gandhi replied, "It would not be dignified for me to tell you what the King said," and explained...
Among buzzing guests in the Picture Gallery several startled the rest by recalling that this was not the first Gandhi-George V meeting. In 1901 the Indian community of Durban, South Africa welcomed the then Duke & Duchess of York, now Their Majesties, with a reception at which Lawyer M. K. Gandhi made the principal address. In 1901 impotent Ad- dresser Gandhi was bedight in the latest British fashion. Last week potent St. Gandhi created a sensation by leaving the royal teaparty before no other guest. "Personally I have very little time for social functions," said he. "Both Their Majesties were...
Shortly from Bombay the Mahatma received a cable signed by leading spirits of his Indian National Congress. They begged him to quit the Indian Round Table Conference in London because it has shown no sign of recommending independence for India. Promptly St. Gandhi announced: "I will sail for Bombay from Genoa on the 29th. ... I feel that I'm wasting my time here, but I'm willing to stay in London until the end of the Conference, which I expect will be in a fortnight. Then nobody can accuse me of impatience...
News that legally brilliant Sir John Simon had been made Foreign Secretary struck even his Liberal friends last week with some surprise. Sir John, in his great role as Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission two years ago, made a hairsplitting, legalistic report on India which deliberately ignored St. Gandhi and the whole Indian National Congress. This report "missed the boat," as Britons say, became obsolete before it was published. Last week the Liberal Manchester Guardian said of Liberal Sir John: "Foreign affairs require no less insight than Indian affairs. Qualities which make a great Foreign Secretary are not purely...