Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month after the British decision to suppress Mohandas K. Gandhi's Indian National Congress party, Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons that the situation in India "gives no occasion for undue despondency or alarm." But from the facts he gave, and others he ignored or distorted, it was clear that the British will neither admit to themselves how serious unrest is in India, nor will they yield to Gandhi...
Commemorating Gandhi's month-old arrest, hundreds of his followers, choking under a tear-gas barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
China on India. Alarmed last week were the Chinese, who reported new Japanese troop concentrations near the Burma-India border. Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's envoy to China, told Washington that the Chungking Government is pressing for Indian mediation by the President. Repeatedly since the arrest of Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's right-hand man and China's great & good friend, the Chungking press has "hoped" for mediation. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, director of political affairs, stated the Chinese position when he said that the conflict is not a British domestic question, but a moral...
...Gandhi's 73rd birthday...
...primary fact was that, led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress party leaders had declared (before being jailed) for armed resistance to the Japanese, if Indian independence, or a national government, was granted. The harped-on secondary issues were Gandhi's pacificism, his suspected pro-Japanese attitude, the threat of Hindu-Moslem civil...