Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-war minorities, came the statement "I have not been made the King's First Minister to be present at the liquidation of the British Empire." From the Indian capital, only 500 miles from the Japanese front lines, came the news of the Viceroy's denial of Gandhi's request to interview a Hindu leader who came to him with the offer of a Hindu-Mohammedan agreement...
...worked harder for such agreement than C. R., a Hindu and member of the Indian National Congress party. Recently he interviewed Moslem League President Mohammed AH Jinnah, felt that the results of their conversation should be reported to the Congress party's imprisoned Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Last week C. R., in white robes and sandals, his sunglasses on his aquiline nose, called on the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, and asked permission to see Gandhi. The tall, cool Viceroy refused...
...belief in the possibility of Hindu-Moslem agreement became more than a hypothesis when the Moslem League's mouthpiece, Dawn, spoke up loudly on his behalf: "The political situation, bad as it is, would not have been worsened by Mr. Rajagopalachariar's meeting Mr. Gandhi. . . . The very idea of victory while holding India on a leash must be agreeable to the die-hards and Blimps who would love to indulge in reminiscences about India being easily controlled with the small finger of the left hand. . . . All the unrest we have is not of Congress' making. . . . The Government...
...prose as informal as his loin cloth, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi last week asked the U.S. people to concern themselves with Indian independence. Writing to the India League of America, he said...
...Says Gandhi: "Ramakrishna was a living embodiment of godliness. His sayings are not those of a mere learned man but they are pages from the Book of Life...