Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas K. Gandhi last week survived a crisis that had caused a panel of nine reputable doctors and the people of India to believe that this time he would die. At week's end Gandhi's uremic condition improved. He was more cheerful, weak but "perky." This week it appeared that his aged but surprisingly resilient body would last out his 21-day fast...
Doctors said that a change in Gandhi's diet from sour lime juice to sweetened juice on the 12th day had stopped his nausea and possibly prevented his death. Gandhi himself said: "God intends me to live...
...sense of anticlimax was felt in the Western world. It was a natural view for Occidentals. But to the Indian people a great tragedy had been averted. And, to their minds, Gandhi's fast had 1) revived India as a United Nations problem affecting the entire military and political future of the East; 2) again enshrined Gandhi as a saint; 3) brought rival political and religious groups together...
...Japan, delighted with Britain's embarrassment, declared a "Mahatma Gandhi Week" in all occupied territories in the East...
Trips to the Future. China was encircled first by disasters and then by the Japanese. In an effort to salvage all they could from the political turmoil that went with military setbacks, the Generalissimo and Madame flew to India. There they talked with Gandhi and Nehru and they urged the Indians not to let their fight against what they considered one evil invite the way to another...