Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, handsome and ebony black -wore a long white velvet gown which, when it flapped, revealed a startling blue-and-white-checked undergarment and a pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world...
...save Mother India from vivisection reluctantly prepared the operating table. Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, laid before the full British Cabinet his plan for handing over British power to Indians. The knotty question was, what power to which Indians? Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite...
...During the intermissions we could introduce the greatest living personalities from every field of life: church dignitaries, scientists, statesmen, farmers, the working class, Jews, Arabs and Negroes. We might even ask Uncle Joe to say a few words and . . . De Gaulle, and Gandhi, the King of Norway and De Valera. . . . "This is the eleventh hour of civilization, and music is the universal language . . . My plan is good for five years and the emergency will last that long...
...When Gandhi left, two hours and 45 minutes later, Pakistan was closer than ever. Jinnah had not budged an inch. Neither had Gandhi. Said he: "I can never be a party to the division of India. I cannot bear the thought...
Perhaps the most discouraging sign in India was the fact that factional intolerance had invaded Gandhi's own prayer meetings. Some of his followers no longer allowed him to read the Koran along with the Hindu Bhagavadgita...