Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservative Congress members tried to convince younger party members that Gandhi's nonviolent noncooperation was not an outmoded weapon. But with the Mahatma in jail on what may be his last earthly birthday, discipline was deteriorating. There was little evidence that violence was any more under control than when Gandhi and other Congress leaders were jailed two months...
Jarred by outside criticism, the British in India repeated their charges that Gandhi was a screwball pacifist at best, a traitor at worst. They claimed that, having governed India for 168 years, they were better prepared to meet India's present crisis than well-meaning intruders. They asked how, with a Japanese invasion threatened, immediate Indian independence could be granted when the Indians could not agree among themselves? This was a valid point, but twistable...
...Hindu-Moslem aspirations. It gave point to the British claim that Indian nationalists must unite before independence (preferably dominionhood within the Empire) will be granted. But efforts to promote a national wartime government were balked by the British Raj's refusal to allow any dealings with the jailed Gandhi...
Birthdays. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 71, second oldest member of the Cabinet (oldest: Henry L. Stimson, 75); on vacation in Virginia. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 73; incommunicado at Poona...
...fingertips and her heart on her sleeve, has compressed India into 289 pages of polemic research and a seven-page, let's-do-something-about-it epilogue. She has no warm appreciation of the vagaries of the Hindu caste system, no piercing analysis of Mohandas K. Gandhi's mystical power over the Indian masses. What she has done is to provide the U.S. public with a book that transforms the late Katherine Mayo's blowsy Mother India into a comparatively understandable problem child...