Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gandhi's New England Ideas...
...Delhi, India, a 21-year-old U.S. merchant seaman named Pat Wellington walked right up to Mohandas K. Gandhi and asked: "Mr. Gandhi, what's all this trouble about over here?" Replied Gandhi: "It's the same disease that is affecting the whole world. I call it poison." Pat: "It seems to be worse in India." Gandhi: "Is it? I don't think [so]. . . . Perhaps life is now more secure in India than in the rest of the world." The Mississippi sailor came away impressed. Said he: "Bilbo always sent word that he was too busy...
Danton's, bigger than Lenin's. The subcontinent had never been a nation; its separate peoples had, however, tolerated each others' very different ways of life. As both a politician and a Great Soul. Gandhi knew that if tolerance was replaced by permanent hatred, there would be not just two Indias, but no India. For India's future, nonviolence was not a philosopher's dream, but a political necessity...
Road to Noalchali. Across the northern frontier, in the Tajik Socialist Soviet Republic, loomed Mt. Stalin (24,590 ft.) and Mt. Lenin (23,386 ft.), mightiest peaks of the U.S.S.R. Gandhi's thoughts last week turned to the lowest part of India, the mushy flats of Noakhali at the mouth of the Ganges. That part of Bengal, where Moslems and Hindus are mixed, will become part of Pakistan...
Noakhali was the first place Gandhi visited last spring in his tour of India's riot areas. Barefoot, staff in hand, leaning on his grandniece Manu, he had padded through the water-soaked fields and the mixed Moslem-Hindu villages, preaching peace. Last week Gandhi planned a symbolic return. "My work is in Noakhali," he said. "Nobody will prevent me from going there." For Gandhi considered himself a citizen of both new Indian states. "I will go freely to all parts of India . . . without a passport." The question was, would other Indians be able to do the same...