Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freedom's Architect. Mountbattenji drew the biggest applause of the day when he said: "At this historic moment let us not forget all that India owes to Mahatma Gandhi-the architect of her freedom through nonviolence. We miss his presence here today and would have him know how he is in our thoughts...
Rich Hindus sometimes seek to insure a happy reincarnation by endowing pinjarapoles-hostels for aging and infirm cows. But it seemed unlikely that Hindu India would outlaw cow slaughter. Mohandas Gandhi, a cow protector from way back, explained somewhat cattily: "India is a land not only of Hindus but of Moslems, Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and Jews. If cow slaughter can be prohibited in India on religious grounds, why can't Pakistan then prohibit [Hindu] idol worship in Pakistan on similar grounds...
...Gandhi has read many a book. In his autobiography, where he called Tolstoy's book on of the two most important in his life, he wrote: "The one book that brought about an instantaneous and practical transformation in my life was [Ruskin's] Unto This Last...
...TIME [June 30] failed to credit Henry D. Thoreau's essay, Civil Disobedience, for the policy of Gandhi. Thoreau, native advocate of the anarchist ideal who practiced it and went to jail, is known to his fellow Americans merely as a "nature writer." His short essay was published and sowed broadcast in the U.S. by fanatical anarchists of the Emma Goldman period without any effect whatever on our affairs. Not until the essay fell into the hands of Gandhi did the seed sprout to shake the British Empire. OTTO McFEELY Oak Park...
...failed to point out that Gandhi is in a real sense a spiritual child of New England. In the very first chapter of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, which Gandhi read with such avidity in his South African days, Tolstoy refers to ... The Catechism of Non-Resistance, written by the Rev. Adin Ballou (1803-1890), who more than 100 years ago founded and became the first president of Hopedale (Socialist) Community in Hopedale, Mass. . . . Gandhi's "passive resistance" is just Ballou's "nonresistance" under another name. LEWIS O. HARTMAN Resident Bishop Methodist Church Boston...