Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been dead 44 years. . . . King Farouk of Egypt wears a fez. . . . Betty Grable quitting the flicks to go into politics. . . . Bilbo quitting politics to go into the movies. . . . He'll play the title role in a revival of The Klansman. . . . Winston Churchill likes cigars. . . . Get Gandhi to tell you what he said to Nehru. . . . What Hollywood biggie dropped $40,000 in a floating crap game last night? . . . Shepheard's Hotel has an 'a' in it. . . . Prices have risen since the war. . . . Inflation the cause, insiders say. . . . Victor Mature and Margaret O'Brien eating ice-cream...
Meanwhile, as dusty winds howled in from the plains to cool off sweltering Delhi, the Congress Party Working Committee repaired each day to Mohandas Gandhi's spruced-up quarters in the Untouchable sweepers' district. The Congress had not yet publicly endorsed the British proposals, but its activity indicated that it was ready to take part in the interim government provided for in the plan...
Through Mohandas Gandhi the Congress Party indicated that it will support the British plan. He said: "The mission and the Viceroy are as God-fearing as we ourselves claim to be. Whatever the wrong done to India by British rule, if the statement of the mission is genuine, as I believe it is, it is in discharge of an obligation they have declared the British owed toward India, namely, to get off India's back...
Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...
...Buchmanites were excited. "Dr. Buchman's return is naturally something we are worked up about,"explained one, frantically dusting the Oxford Group's headquarters in Berkeley Square. The old "Soul Surgeon"-who looks like Gandhi fully clothed and well fed on the very best melted butter-was back after seven years...