Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months after the British had let him out of prison to die, sick, 74-year-old Mohandas Gandhi tottered back onto India's political stage...
...dysentery, low blood pressure, hookworm, anemia, weak heart & kidneys had sapped his body. His wife had died. All the leading members of the Congress Working Committee had been jailed since they voted an ultimatum to Great Britain to leave India to the Indians immediately or face mass civil disobedience (Gandhi's famed, fateful "Quit India" resolution...
...same years, his most potent Indian rival had grown in power. As Gandhi speaks professionally for India's Hindu masses (255,000,000), so Mohamed Ali Jinnah speaks professionally for India's Moslems (92,000,000). Jinnah maintained that Hindu-Moslem unity was impossible. He insisted that, in a free India, autonomy should be granted to areas where Moslems are in the majority, and he called his doctrine Pakistan. Gandhi called Pakistan a perpetual vivisection of Mother India, held until last week that the whole Hindu-Moslem question should be postponed until independence is achieved...
...mutton cooked British style. . . . Legislation should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home. . . ." ¶Outside Bombay, U.S. soldiers asked the aging Mahatma Gandhi to sign their "short-snorter" bills. The proud little Hindu, only one month out of British incarceration, refused to sign an Indian bank note. But when the soldiers handed him Chinese money, he gladly squiggled his signature...
Until lately, many Indian industrialists contributed liberally to Mohandas Gandhi's Congress Party, banked on it for political backing. Now that the Party is in decline, they must bank on themselves and/or the British. When the Indian tycoons' man, Sir Ardeshir Dalal, joined the Viceroy's council, it looked as though India's industrialists and India's Raj were going to bank on each other. Tata & friends had said they still wanted a strong national government with power to act for India and Indians. Perhaps, through economic cooperation with the Raj, they could get what...