Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors warned friends to spare him "all strain for some time to come." Gandhi's son, amiable, pudgy Devadas Gandhi, editor of the Hindusthan Times, did not feel optimistic. His father, he said, scorned medicines, relied for recuperation on massage, water and vegetables, and spiritual resources "beyond the conception of the Western world." But the old man was indomitable: at Parnakuti he climbed 70 steps, led a household prayer meeting on an open terrace, asked for war news: "Let me know what is going on around me. If I am to die, let me not die an ignorant...
...once India's nationalist and British newspapers saw eye to eye: they were glad that Gandhi had been released, glad that the Viceroy had been wise...
Change of Spirit? The Raj made one request of Gandhi: to keep political silence. The old man's intimates prayed that he would regain strength for one more grand effort. They spoke hopefully of a meeting between him and the Viceroy, a meeting that might wipe the slate clean, win at long last the cooperation of India's nationalists in the Empire's war. Said Devadas Gandhi's Hindusthan Times: "... Though the communique says the decision was taken on purely medical grounds, we permit ourselves the hope that this marks a change of spirit which...
...Delhi still had Gandhi's once potent political machine, the Congress Party, jacked up. Still at odds with Gandhi and his party was the increasingly powerful Moslem League. Still in jail were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Kalam Azad and some 8,000 other great & small leaders of the Congress Party. Even when, or if, the Congress Party recovered from British pressures and its own mistakes, and began to function again, it would not be the same without the binding personality of Gandhi...
Released, Mohandas Gandhi no longer spoke for all of India, nor even for all of the Congress Party. But he was still the symbol of India...