Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes-allowing for each country's particular brand of red tape -with most of our correspondents. In India, the most useful document is a press pass to the Viceroy's house, which, although outdated now, still gets you anywhere (even into Gandhi's untouchables colony) and proves helpful during riots. In Buenos Aires, each government and municipal department has its own special pass for admittance. Great Britain, on the other hand, requires only two cards (national identity and alien registration) to work there...
...alarmed Mohandas K. Gandhi offered advice to the women which, for a vegetarian, seemed surprising: the only way they could avoid dishonor, he said, was to bite their tongues or hold their breath until they died.* If that would not work, he snapped, let them take poison. He was feeling crotchety, anyway, and "thoroughly ashamed" of an error he had made in a letter, calling the Moslem League "the authoritative representative" (of an overwhelming majority of Indian Moslems), instead of "the most authoritative representative." Peevishly, he muttered that a man who made such mistakes probably would not live...
...Chicago, the American Medical Association's quidnunctious Dr. Morris Fishbein doubted the efficacy of the Gandhi suicide technique...
...Gandhi to rule all India...
Indian leaders sadly admitted the difficulties. Said External Affairs Minister Jawaharlal Nehru: "What are we aiming at? Freedom? Yes. Higher standards? Yes. But we are ultimately aiming at feeding, clothing, housing, educating and providing better health conditions for 400,000,000." Said Gandhi: "If Hindus and Moslems must fight, let them be brave and fight it out amongst themselves." He was geometrically hopeful: "Euclid's line is one without breadth, but no one has been able to draw it and never will. All the same, it is only by keeping the ideal line in mind that we have made...