Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through foreign office secretaries in London hinted at a Gandhi connection, the only thing that the fighting Afridi and the nonviolent disciples of Saint Gandhi have in common is a thoroughgoing distrust of the British. Fierce Fazli Wahid is a very great warrior who would rather fight than eat. In that he is more fanatical than his followers. Month ago when he issued a call for a holy war against the British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until...
...lost its terrors to the Pathan. Against mobile and intelligent opposition in broken, mountainous country the mobility of the air arm for offensive purposes may have been overrated." At Bombay the British arrested and imprisoned for three months white-mustached Vallabhai Patel, fourth successor to Saint Gandhi in the civil disobedience campaign...
...away India obstreperous Gand-hites wear white, homespun "Gandhi Caps," which British policemen fish off their heads. The fishing is done with poles having a sharp hook at the end, and while they fish the police beat the nonresisting Gandhites with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in protest against such "inhumanity" that ascetic Laborite Archibald Fenner Brockway, M. P., 42, a leading publicist and orator of his party, was startling the House with his "Gandhi Cap." He demanded that without further ado his chief, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald permit debate on India, then and there...
...free"?that is, will not be compelled to work out a solution in terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...
...Bombay Indian cotton prices broke seriously. April imports of piece goods were reported as 165,000,000 yd. as against 215,000,000 yd. for April 1929. The cotton spinning of individual Gandhi followers was said to be seriously affecting the British cotton piece goods trade...