Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cigaret case bore the autographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hitler, Lloyd George, etc. Gandhi signed it when he promised to carry no more cigarets therein...
...Punjah challenge was quickly checked when another Punjah member, Sardar Kartar Singh, answered: "Gandhi may not be a four-annas member, but Gandhi and Congress are identical...
...still shone violently next day when Activist Bose staged his big challenge. In a field across the Damodar River, within shouting distance of the Gandhi camp, Suhhas Bose harangued 5,000 of his followers. He damned Gandhi's dilatory tactics, pointed out how Mussolini sprang into action in 1922, demanded similar sudden decisions in the India of 1940. Then he mounted a farmer's cart drawn by two white bullocks, and as his followers carried banners (including the hammer-&-sickle), he rode in loud triumph right through the Gandhi camp. For the moment, the race was to Bose...
...Gandhi's next maneuver disposed of both Bose and the opposition Moslems. Up rose Congress President Abul Kalam Azad. He told the delegates that Gandhi wanted independence as much as Bose and would get it by shrewder means. Himself a Moslem, he was a flesh & blood answer to the Moslem League charge that the Congress leaves Moslems out of its counsels...
...retired to their flimsy huts. As the night wore on roofs caved in or were blown off, bedding became soaked, the water system bogged down, the main avenue flooded. Next morning the bedraggled members stood in water half way up their shins, hastily and overwhelmingly voted confidence in Mohandas Gandhi, and hurried home. Once again, Mahatma Gandhi had proved that, wet going or dry, he is the best political jockey...