Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long day, the 80-year-old Marquess of Salisbury had viewed many things with alarm. He was horrified (1934) at the idea that his government might offer India dominion status-"the ideal of Gandhi!" He thought (1936) King Edward's abdication "a disaster that left [the body politic] mutilated and torn." He considered (1937) that allowing divorce on the ground of desertion or incurable in sanity would "launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot...
Children appeared at nightfall as if conjured up by magicians. They skipped from house to house with secretly printed bulletins calling for new mass demonstrations against British rule during the week of Mohandas K. Gandhi's 73rd birthday...
When the day came, followers of Gandhi's Indian National Congress party picketed government offices, sang their anthem, Bande Mataram.* They hung out Congress flags. They closed their shops. Leaders who were still unjailed tried to control the violence. They failed...
...disposition to draw Russian and Chinese officers into a unified command. While his Government censors kept news of Indian rioting from the British public, he could still talk about India with the imperialist arrogance of 1931, when he said: "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, striding half naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace ... to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King Emperor...
...Congress party. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem League's opportunistic president, barking for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), came close to agreement on national government with his old political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla, said that he believed Gandhi would agree to allow Jinnah to form his own government...