Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest Congress personality is 69-year-old Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Politically astute as well as religiously ascetic. Saint Gandhi has long been a virtual Congress dictator, his word being law and his selection of party officials final...
Squirming under the Gandhi thumb, however, has been a group of educated, progressive, Westernized young Indian Leftists. While admiring Saint Gandhi's past contributions to the cause, they have nevertheless deplored the fact that the Mahatma's closest advisers have long been a group of rich Hindu moneylenders and merchants, that the Saint is not even faintly inclined to socialist principles. They also take no stock in Mahatma Gandhi's belief that machines are wicked, that earthquakes are demonstrations of God's wrath and that the primitive Indian village life is the ideal way of living...
...East, Christianity exercises an influence out of all proportion to its numbers. Of three men who are rated by many as Asia's most influential leaders- China's Philosopher-poet Dr. Hu Shih (now Ambassador to the U. S.), India's Mahatma Gandhi, Japan's Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa-only the last is a Christian. Dr. Kagawa, soft-faced, almost blind "Greatest Christian" of Japan, preaches economic and moralistic doctrines which today are completely at variance with those of Japan's rulers. Like other Japanese Christians, he has been largely silenced during the war in China...
...tall, pallid President Henry Noble MacCracken named the five Most Intelligent Women in the World: Angelica Balanbanoff, internationalist, author of My Life As a Rebel (TIME, Aug. 1); Halidé Edib, Turkish patriot, onetime Professor of Western Literature at Istanbul University; Sarojini Naidu, Indian poetess, friend & adviser of Mahatma Gandhi; Mme Chiang Kaishek, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...education, the takli, a small spindle on which the student can spin yarn as he walks, talks, prays. As they learn these trades, India's school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation's curse: "We are strangers in our own home. The vocabulary of our mother tongue is so pathetic that we finish our sentences by having recourse to English words...