Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week President Roosevelt's envoy to India, William Phillips, announced that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
Ever since Mahatma Gandhi pulled through his fast, Indians and British alike have been standoffishly waiting for a next move-for Gandhi's survival by no means closed the issue for which he failed to die. There were some moves last week, but they only widened the breach...
...British Raj issued a 76-page pamphlet entitled Statement Published by the Government of India on the Congress Party's Responsibility for the Disturbances in India, 1942-43. The pamphlet quoted at length from Gandhi's writings in the paper Harijan, from his speeches and those of Congress officers, from pamphlets and articles. Some were clearly inflammatory: "Leave India to God; if that is too much, then leave her to anarchy. . . ." "If in spite of all precautions rioting does take place, it cannot be helped." But some of the statements which were cited as evidences of treason echoed...
Raman is one of the best authorities on Indian politics in the United States today. Born into an old Hindu Brahmin family of Madras and educated in both India and England, he joined Gandhi's staff at the Round Table Conferences...
...London editor of the United Press of India in 1940 he came into personal contact with British Cabinet members, and at the same time maintained close association with Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian leaders. In March 1941, he made a visit to India, conferring with the most important persons in the country...