Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indian nationalist politicians screamed "stooges" at the portfolioists, pointed out that, while Indians have a majority in the Council, the key portfolios-Finance, Defense, External Affairs and Home Affairs-are all held by British officials. Purred Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for the Indian National Congress: "The announcement [of the appointments] . . . does not affect the stand taken by the Congress nor does it meet the Congress demands." Mahomed Ali Jinnah, who is thinner even than Saint Gandhi and is President of the All-India Moslem League, threatened disciplinary action against those who have anything to do with the Council...
...British Raj sighed and announced that Dr. Satya Pal, hitherto a vehement nationalist, resigned from Saint Gandhi's Congress and volunteered to tend British wounded...
...some of India's 78,000,000 Mohammedans, suckled on the fighting creed of Islam, the nonviolent and democratic ideals of Mohandas Gandhi and his followers are sissified. It was among these fire-eating, creed-conscious Moslems that the Khaksars got their start in 1930. Officially the spade or belch is carried "to lift the humble dust"-it can also be used for drinking, cooking, sitting, skull-splitting...
...East stirred restlessly, like a monster aroused from an age-old sleep, as new conquerors threatened the age-old dominion of Britain. To an appeal from the London Times to end his civil-disobedience campaign in view of Britain's growing peril, Mohandas K. Gandhi replied curtly that the campaign "must continue at all costs." In Iran tension increased with the fear that Russia was preparing to drive toward the Persian Gulf. In Iraq Nazi plotters had already unsettled Britain's hold (see p. 37), and Nazi Schemester Franz von Papen appeared to have cowed Turkey into some...
Nehru's respect for Gandhi, whom he knows intimately, amounted almost to reverence. But it did not blind him to things he doubted or deplored. Gandhi's inhuman asceticism, his revivalistic virtuosity, appalled him no less than his medieval regard for the rich as God's "trustees," his conception of democracy as one's "complete identification with the poorest of mankind, longing to live no better than they." Such ideas, to a bourgeois, who was moving from nationalism to ideas of a new world order, from Socialism towards Communism, were not only incomprehensible but dangerous. Constantly...