Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This frail old man of seventy-eight, who may be a politician among saints, but is no less a saint among politicians." Thus the Manchester Guardian last week described Mohandas Gandhi. The description was perfect...
...crowds increased daily about the home of wealthy C. D. Birla, where Gandhi lay. Attendance boomed at his evening prayer services. On the third day, he was too weak to walk the 100 yards from the palatial Birla House to his prayer service, and he addressed the meeting through a loudspeaker from his bed. Physicians reported that he was weakening, hour by hour; his kidneys were not functioning properly. He sipped hot water apathetically...
Upgrade. At this point, when it seemed that Gandhi might die defeated in his battle against hatred, a wave of emotion swept India. With newspapers and radios carrying hourly bulletins of his sinking condition, Delhi's frayed citizens began to organize meetings and processions around the single motto: "Save Gandhi's life." Post-office employees stamped on every letter mailed in New Delhi the message: "Keep communal peace and save Mahatma Gandhi...
...seemed inclined also to crack down on Moslems within India: "Mere declarations of loyalty to the Indian Union will not help Moslems at this critical juncture," said Patel. Later he became bolder, and darkly hinted at open war with Pakistan. Most Sikhs and many Hindus applauded Patel. Obliquely, Gandhi observed that Patel had "thorns on his tongue." Without warning, one day last week the Mahatma began to fast...
...Gandhi was in no condition to fast for long. (His longest heretofore: three weeks. His most recent fast, last September, lasted only 73 hours.) Worried doctors who hovered over him thought he might not live beyond two weeks...