Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With wisps of Axis battle smoke all but drifting across India's borders from Russia and Thailand, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his recently released companions in civil disobedience began to waken from their prison apathy and make concessions to the logic of events. Effective as Mahatma Gandhi's passive-resistance technique may have been against the relatively civilized British, its potential worth against enemy tanks and bombers appeared questionable...
...determined to support the war, the Government of India (acting for the Colonial office) decided to release civil-disobedience prisoners "whose offense has been formal and symbolic." Included were gentle, scholarly Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, President of the Indian National Congress, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, next to Mohandas K. Gandhi the most potent man in the Party...
...British Government hoped that these releases might bring all India in line with the Raj, if only for a short time. But to the Raj, Mahatma Gandhi had some discouraging words to say: "If the Government of India were so confident of the full support of India in the war effort, the logical conclusion would be to keep the civil-disobedience prisoners in confinement. . . . The only meaning I can attach to their release, therefore, is that the Government of India expects the prisoners to change their opinion regarding their self-invited solitude. I am hoping the Government will soon...
Millions of Hindus follow gnarled little Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who favors pacifist isolationism, not as a means of hurting Britain's war effort, but in order to keep the Nationalist movement alive. Millions of other Hindus, including many members of Gandhi's own Indian National Congress party, watching Adolf Hitler's approach to India beyond the Caucasus and Japan's approach beyond Burma, are prepared to fight against the Axis-if Indian self-government seems likely. Other millions are already fighting hard, in factories and in Britain's Middle Eastern ranks. And many millions feel...
Subhas Chandra Bose, top left-winger in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's All-India National Congress, twice Party President and persistent threat to Mahatma Gandhi's leadership, has been sentenced eleven times to British jails. Last week he was beyond British grasp. India's Council of State announced officially that he "has gone over to the enemy" and signed an Axis pact inviting India's invasion. Guessed the Council: He is probably already in Berlin or Rome...