Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost Smoky $18.25 (including tax) to be "sociable." Now he plans to call among others Churchill and Madame Chiang. "I would particularly like to talk to Gandhi," he said longingly. "I understand he talks very good American...
...Dramatic funeral of Gandhi...
...Reconciliation of Nehru and Gandhi...
...uneasy truce prevailed in the subcontinent. Mohamed Ali Jinnah for the Moslem League, and Jawaharlal Nehru for the All-India Congress, had accepted the plan which meant that at least two new nations, Hindustan and Pakistan, would arise in India. Finally, Mohandas Gandhi gave his acquiescence...
Then Mountbatten invited Mohandas Gandhi to his office. The crickety little Mahatma, spiritual leader of the Hindu millions, had never been as obdurate in opposition to division. For an apostle of nonviolence, he had used, a few days before, strong language: "Let the whole nation be in flames; we will not concede an inch of Pakistan." But in the Viceroy's office, he listened as Mountbatten talked, scribbled questions on a pad of paper, but uttered no sound. The Mahatma was observing his day of silence...