Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall mill chimneys at Ahmadabad, India's leading textile city, a hundred factory whistles shriek and scream the call to work. But there is no response. Doors remain closed and the streets empty. The mills remain idle, as they have been since August 9, the day Gandhi was arrested...
...Today the Manchester of India is paralyzed as a textile center. . . . Neither millowners nor trade unions take responsibility for the strike, although everybody knows they are supporting it, just as everybody knows the strike is for the release of Gandhi and the formation of a national government...
From 1879 until his death from cancer of the throat in 1886 crowds of all classes and castes thronged to see Ramakrishna. He answered visitors' questions for 20 hours out of every 24, steadily undermined his health while doing so. Faced with the same problem, Gandhi solved it by one day of silence every week...
...resign his War Cabinet post in protest against Tory policies. It came a few days after 56 prominent Britons had signed a 400-word appeal to liberal, able Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") urging him to form a national Government. C. R. flatly contradicted a recent Cripps statement that Gandhi had personally aborted an attempt at an Indian settlement last spring. Of the Secretary of State for India's speech, Rajagopalachariar said: "The drift is far too perilous for the United Nations to be satisfied with Amery's whitewash...
...Perfectly disastrous," was the way one of India's leading statesmen summed up the attitude of Mahatma Gandhi in the present Indian crisis. Speaking over the Crimson Network last night, Diwan Bahadur Runganadhan, advisor to the Secretary of State for India in the British Cabinet, expressed his belief that "Gandhi is betraying the entire cause of human liberty" by his advocacy of non-violence and pacifism at this time...