Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest fighting leaders, in a fighter's forthright style, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week told Britain to quit stalling on the subject of India's political freedom. The Gissimo was still visiting in India (TIME, Feb. 23), where he had just talked with Mohandas Gandhi, but his words sounded to faraway London like a thunderclap...
...talk with the most remarkable of them all could only have strengthened his desire. He met Mohandas Gandhi shortly after noon in the marbled and gilded Calcutta mansion of Gandhi's rich cotton-milling backer, Ghanshyamdas Birla. Throughout the conversations, Gandhi spun yarn on a charkha (hand spinning wheel). He talked with the Gissimo through an interpreter, with vivid Mme. Chiang in English. After 80 minutes the Chinese visitors dined, while the Mohandas, as usual, abstained from mid-day eating. The conference continued through Gandhi's evening meal of unleavened cakes, boiled vegetables, goat's milk...
Action. The Gissimo's resounding statement on India pumped electricity into India's two greatest political parties, Gandhi's Indian National Congress and the Moslem League. A conference of Indian nonparty leaders, led by liberal Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, at once passed a resolution asking Britain to declare India's position "identical with those of other self-governing units of the British Commonwealth...
Engaged. Indira Nehru, Oxford-graduate daughter of Indian Nationalist leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru; and Lawyer Pheroz Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma); in Bombay...
...came ever closer to India Prophet Gandhi...