Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Candid Gandhi. With utmost candor St. Gandhi admitted that the truce he signed can and may be rejected by the Indian National Congress, summoned last week for March 24 at New Delhi...
Before the Congress meets St. Gandhi will tour Bombay Province advocating the truce. "I will strain every nerve," he said. If adopted the Gandhi-Irwin agreement will form the basis for further negotiations at a Second Round Table Conference with St. Gandhi present...
...Swaraj. With equal frankness the Mahatma said that he, like the British Government, was taken completely by surprise when the Indian princes offered at London to federate their realms with the rest of India (TIME, Dec. 1). This put a new face on the entire Indian question, disposed St. Gandhi to think of modifying the original Nationalist Congress demand for purna swaraj...
What is that? The phrase has always been officially translated "complete independence," but last week St. Gandhi (as a saint may) took a certain liberty with puma swaraj, first stating that it is untranslatable...
Great Viceroy. Obviously Lord Irwin has drawn St. Gandhi very close to acceptance of the so-called "Reserved Dominion Status" which Scot MacDonald has offered India in lieu of absolute freedom (TIME, Jan. 26). Said the Nationalist (i. e., Gandhite) Hindustan Times, amazingly last week, "If Lord Irwin has earned an immortal place in the history of India, it is not only for showing himself a strong Viceroy, although even there he has had few rivals among his predecessors, but it is also for having shown an outstanding capacity for statesmanship and for having saved India for the Empire...