Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lord Halifax was Viceroy of India, he officially recognized Mohandas Gandhi as a statesman and chief Indian spokesman, allowed Indian National Congress influence to grow. Next came Lord Willingdon, who attempted to sup press the Congress, succeeded only in driving it underground. Linlithgow stood between Halifax and Willingdon, showing neither Halifax's sympathy nor Willingdon's iron hand. During his "irregime," anti-British sentiment grew in India; economic conditions did not improve; Gandhi, Nehru and some 35,000 members of the Congress party were jailed...
...choice of Wavell, who has been trained in neither politics nor diplomacy, upset such expectations. But nothing could upset Indian mistrust of British motives, Indian resentment over the incommunicado imprisonment of Mohandas Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and thousands of fellow nationalists. From New Delhi, TIME Correspondent William Fisher reported...
Last month India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer declared invalid the emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...
...Delhi conference Jinnah had described Britain's Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery, and Viceroy Lord Linlithgow as "pukka diehards still dangling the carrot of unity before donkey-like India." Jinnah had suggested that the country "unite and drive the British out," and asked Gandhi to write him a letter. The Raj, Jinnah said, would not dare to stop such a message. The Raj did dare. Jinnah commented: "The letter of Mr. Gandhi can only be construed as a move on his part to embroil the Moslem League in a clash with the British...
...Gandhi, with his mysticism, his dhoti, his self-imposed poverty, his goats, his spinning wheel, wants a united India, but he has lost power through the failure of his "Quit India" campaign and his pitiful attempts to meet India's economic ills through makeshift remedies...