Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...
...India National Congress, which speaks for most of India, was meeting at the foot of Bombay's Malabar Hill. Hundreds of workers had toiled day & night for a fortnight to erect a pandal (tent) big enough to seat the 300 delegates and 25,000 visitors. Gandhi was absent with a high fever, but his deputy, Jawaharlal Nehru, was conspicuously present. Embittered Moslem League supporters signalized Nehru's arrival by waving black flags, which Congress supporters promptly tore to tatters...
Mohandas K. Gandhi introduced a new marital oath at the wedding of two friends, urged it on all his followers: no begetting of offspring till India wins freedom...
Strained, tired, idealistic Jawaharlal carried on in Gandhi's dogged war of attrition against the British Empire. When he and Gandhi were again arrested in 1932, Krishna, Swarup, and their delicate, aged mother took to the hustings. The two sisters were promptly clapped into jail for a year apiece; their mother shortly followed. True to Nehru tradition, Krishna found prison life "not pleasant" but "a great experience...
...Gandhi's Heir. Written in 1942-43 while Krishna waited for her husband to complete a one-year stretch, With No Regrets is no guide to the tortuous complexities of Indian politics. Nor is it even Gandhi propaganda. British imperialists may read it without risk of apoplexy. But for most westerners, these gentle reminiscences will help to bring alive the sensitive, ascetic man of dreams and action who will probably inherit Gandhi's sainted khadi during modern India's most crucial years...