Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first days the full impact of Mahatma Gandhi's peculiar program of civil disobedience had not yet had effect. Riots spread around Bombay, like boils, over the face of the Central Provinces. A few were reported in Bengal, where the Japs may invade from India's northeastern border...
...British claimed Gandhi's program of disruption called for: 1) closing shops to destroy public morale; 2) interference with telephone & telegraph lines; 3) fomenting strikes in munitions and war materiel factories; 4) interference with A.R.P. services; 5) dislocating transport; 6) a strike by lawyers...
Whether or not these assertions were true, Gandhi could not publicly affirm or deny: he was locked up in a luxurious jail, the Aga Khan's million-rupee "bungalow" at Poona. But the British threatened use of the whip on rioters, execution of anyone sabotaging trains or communications...
...that Pandit (Great Scholar) Nehru had gone to jail. Only twice has he been out for more than a year at a time. Yet for ten years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru's feet to India. It was Nehru the disciple...
...more than counteracting these opinions were scores of other papers editorializing, like the Birmingham Post, that "it was imperative to scotch the disobedience movement at the start." The most bitter crackdown of all came from London's Daily Mail. "We are paying for past weaknesses," said the Mail. "Gandhi, Azad and Nehru . . . are now in jail. . . . They should have been there years ago. . . . From now on we should rule." The Mail urged that Congress leaders should be deported "as the Quislings they are." Gandhi, roared the Mail, is "a dangerous and unscrupulous politician whose sole desire is that...