Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revered and respected has Mohandas K. Gandhi been that he has never felt the need of a bodyguard as he travels about India. Recently however, demonstrators in a Calcutta suburb booed at the wizened little old man. One even dared to throw a shoe which barely missed the Mahatma, hit his private secretary. This is India's worst insult. Later, the Mahatma was greeted at a station by a group carrying black flags-another Indian symbol of rebuke...
...heat thus turned on him, last week St. Gandhi turned it on the British. His Working Committee of Congress threatened nationwide civil disobedience if Britain did not grant home rule instanter...
Moderate Indian nationalist opinion and Mr. Gandhi were obviously on the run. In prospect, unless the British talked very fast and convincingly, were the bad times...
...Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, wants to talk over troublesome Indian problems with Mohandas K. Gandhi, the revered Mahatma will usually arrange to call on His Excellency at New Delhi. Not so obliging is another Indian leader named Mirza Ali Khan, better known as the Fakir...
...treatment of her "conchies" is in strong contrast with France's. Many a French pacifist is now in jail, including Henri Roser, secretary of the French Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lecturing on peace in the U. S. last week, Muriel Lester, dynamic British pacifist, friend of Mahatma Gandhi, declared: "One can be proud of Britain's civil liberty." Example: the Government recently permitted Canon Charles Earle Raven to broadcast on absolute Christian pacifism...