Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which now dot India, and at one time or another he has visited nearly all the provinces of British India and 14 of the native states (at Udaipur the Maharajah put him up in a palace all his own with 16 servants in green livery). He has talked with Gandhi before his arrest in his mud hut at Wardha ("he is Bernard Shaw one minute and St. Francis the next")-with Jawaharlal Nehru at the homes of friends in Delhi ("the most truly simple man I have ever known")-with Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah at his marble-lined villa...
Within the prison walls of the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona death came to Kasturbai Gandhi. On the funeral day the guarded gates opened, briefly, to let aged, withered Mohandas Gandhi follow the body of his wife and co-prisoner to its pyre...
Every week a 25-lb. package of plastic printing plates flies 12,000 airline miles from Chicago to New Delhi. There the Army puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others...
Said the Manchester Guardian: "It rather looks as if the Indian Government had decided that the best thing to do is to pretend that Gandhi and Congress do not exist and to hope that they will be quietly forgotten...
This week militant Nationalists rioted in Bombay, Poona, Ahmadabad, marking a year of jail for Gandhi. Police arrested freely...