Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mahatma Gandhi's confidante, ex-secretary and the present Indian Health Minister, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, testified: "Gandhiji is very sad today. He has told me repeatedly that he is experiencing the pain and anguish of a thousand daggers pierced in his body...
...subtitle of Gandhi and Stalin is Two Signs at the World's Crossroads. Leftish Correspondent Louis Fischer has been at those crossroads once before. That time he took the road marked Stalin. He lived in Russia for 14 years, raised his children there, wrote pro-Stalin pieces for Manhattan's pink Nation that warmed the fellow travelers like letters from home. By 1938, Fischer could no longer stomach the excesses of the Communist dictatorship. When he left Russia, his wife and two sons stayed behind. They later got out with Mrs. Roosevelt's help...
...Politics (TIME, May 12, 1941), Fischer, like many another unblinkered convert, sang the blues of disillusionment. Gandhi and Stalin is the logical outcome of his about-face: a warning of what Stalin is up to and a prescription for stopping him. It is also an awkward plea for Gandhi's "method of nonviolent yet dynamic and direct action which fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year...
Beyond Diplomacy. If Fischer sounds bemused as a Gandhi-man, he is somewhat more lucid as a critic of Stalin. To him, the "political war is visible and tangible. Every day's newspaper is a battle bulletin of that war. ... It is easy to say 'We must meet Russia halfway.' We have met Russia 90 percent of the way. But Russia does not meet us even 10 percent of the way. . . . The entire problem of the relations between Russia and America, or between dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This...
...democratic world cannot prosper unless the British Labor Government succeeds." At times Author Fischer fumbles all over the ideological map: "Farmland should be as free as air. It should not be bought or sold . . . equality of wealth would eradicate the power advantage now inherent in wealth.. . . Marx and Gandhi might make a fruitful combination." In his honest but disjointed eagerness to defeat "Stalin with Gandhi," Fischer defeats the coherence of his anti-Communist thesis...