Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half hours Mohandas K. Gandhi and Lord Linlithgow conferred. Well did His Excellency know that the millions of Gandhi followers were fairly itching to have their beloved Mahatma declare that the time had come for them to go on strike against British rule. Well did he know that in this war India has not contributed anything like the money or the soldiers she did in the last. He knew very well also what another Gandhi-directed civil disobedience campaign would meana transportation tie-up of badly-needed supplies, calling out large Indian Army units, a constant worry that Soviet Russia...
...Gandhi sat on a sheet-covered mat, his hands folded under a white cotton blanket. A shorthand expert was on one side; on the other were two women disciples, one of them Madeleine Slade, daughter of a British admiral. A "wide gulf" separated Britain and India, began the Mahatma. There was no "prospect whatsoever of a peaceful, honorable settlement" until Britain let the Indians determine their own status. And then: "When this is done, questions regarding defense of minorities, princes and European interests automatically will be dissolved. ... If Britain cannot recognize India's legitimate claims, what will...
Last week in England a vast debate began. Participants were about 3,000 debating societies, cooperatives, trade unions. Invited to chime in editorially were 300 newspapers throughout the world, including Mahatma Gandhi's Young India. Also invited was Dorothy Thompson. Lead-off debater was H. G. Wells, with an article in the London Daily Herald, whose owl-faced, idealistic Reporter Ritchie Calder started the whole thing. Subject: A New Declaration of the Rights...
...Smith ($3). England's yogi-man (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Yogi Explained} submits a hot-eyed appraisal of pre-war Europe. Yeats-Brown's arch-enemies are Communism, Atheism, Internationalism, Pacifism. Hitler, "a great man, whatever his failings . . . great in spirit," is favorably compared with Gandhi, T. E. Lawrence. France is "one of the most enjuivé [Jewridden] countries in Europe . . . nothing but a dictatorship can save [the French]." Readers who must grant the author the courage of his two-thirds fascist convictions, supported by no little factual solidity, will nonetheless find the thinking itself often...