Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading your article on our leader (Mahatma Gandhi) and his present activities in India (TIME, March 31), I have to congratulate you most heartily on the thorough grasp and clear understanding you manifest of the true spirit, morals and significance of our movement, as also on the coining, as only an American can, of the very happy and expressive term ''Recpolism'' to convey in a word to your readers a comprehensive idea of the movement. As an Indian I beg to express my gratitude to you, sir, for this enlightening article which is so different...
...Laborites explained that the means to which Scot MacDonald resorted to satisfy his curiosity were justified by the grave Indian crisis. When three newspapers (London Daily Telegraph, London Daily Chronicle, Manchester Daily Dispatch) let out in advance the state secret that the MacDonald Government had decided to arrest St. Gandhi in India (TIME, May 12) even the cool Scot's nerves jumped...
Beyond a doubt the Viceroy had advised Mr. MacDonald that St. Gandhi must be taken by surprise, lest his arrest lead to violence on the spot, and the Prime Minister had pledged both his own and his Cabinet's word to keep the secret. When it leaked out he saw red, jumped to the conclusion that he must have been betrayed by some disloyal civil servant, invoked the Official Secrets Act, ordered Scotland Yard to get the traitor...
...There will be . . . battle!" Avowedly St. Gandhi has been courting jail, but when he achieved this "martyrdom" last week, immediate results were meagre. Baron Irwin had taken the precaution to revive and strengthen the disused Press Act of 1910, decreed that every obstreperous Indian newspaper must post high bonds to obey the Censor or cease publication. At one stroke this not only muzzled but stopped the presses of many provincial editors who dared not risk a large forfeiture plus the further risk of confiscation of their entire plants at the Government's pleasure. To stifle criticism further, the Viceroy...
Gagged by Britain, enjoined by St. Gandhi to nonviolence, Indians faced appeals by his followers to join in a "Day of Mourning," march in protest parades, participate in hartals (do-nothing strikes). Shops were shuttered and barred in Bombay, Ahmadabad, Jalalpur as great numbers of workers struck in these cities. Guarded by armored cars, some factories at Bombay kept going, their workers harried by swarms of pickets. Censorship made certain that any bad news would be at least delayed. Said Mrs. Gandhi mildly when told of her husband's incarceration: "I hope India will show her mettle and make...