Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white suits, gathered up his books. If there had been time, he would have made his broadcast, a final appeal to America-an appeal for understanding from the world's last great bastion of freedom. But there was not time: The British Raj, intent on crushing the second Gandhi civil-disobedience campaign in World War II, was mad and tough...
...angry the Raj can get, how tough it can be, is an old and bitter story to Nehru. Last week, having jailed Gandhi, Nehru and other Congress leaders (including Nehru's sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit), the British claimed an early victory. At least 83 known killed, hundreds of others with broken skulls-this was the price Gandhi's followers paid for protest rioting in disobedience of Gandhi's policy of passive resistance. But though the first flames of riot were quenched, the fire went on underground...
...Nehru & Gandhi. There are some who believe that if Nehru had not played Hamlet to Gandhi's ghost, a compromise might have been effected before the latest call for civil disobedience. But past attempts by Nehru to enlist the services of the United Nations for a solution have ended in blind alleys...
...Gandhi and Nehru cannot be brushed off the face of Bharat Mata (Mother India). Until Gandhi dies, Nehru is bound to him by ties of love and political necessity, even though their political thinking is poles apart...
...Nehru, who has written as revealingly of his own thoughts and beliefs as any man since Henry Adams, Gandhi is the great paradox-an arch reactionary,-yet the greatest revolutionary leader of his time. Invariably Nehru has swung to Gandhi's side, often in subsequent amazement that so mystical a character could, by instinct, sense the time for mass movements and the means to arouse public support...