Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were slate-grey overhead. The oppressive heat gave added pungency to the smell of human filth in the Girgaun district of Bombay's slums. Shopkeepers moved listlessly; talk dribbled in the bazaars. Suddenly everything changed. Word sputtered from mouth to mouth that the British Raj had jailed Mahatma Gandhi...
Masani supported Gandhi's proposal of a Nationalistic Government, which would government India democratically. Anti-British feeling would subjects and the agrarian debt of the peasants, which keeps them starving would be abolished. At the same time, India would cooperate in aiding the United Nations forces in fighting the Japs, he concluded...
...Secretary of State for India, reiterated his Government's support of eventual Indian self-government, but warned India that the Government "will not flinch from their duty" to combat civil disobedience. There was a counter-threat that, if the British jailed all Congress leaders, the aged and frail Gandhi might die a martyr's death. Sir Stafford hinted that Gandhi's actions were treasonable...
...Lawyer Gandhi promptly recalled his past claims that only a free Indian people can be galvanized into action in a larger war for freedom. In his own crosspatch way he told off the Japanese: "Our offer to let the Allies retain troops in India," he explained in a manifesto, "is to prevent you from being misled into feeling that you have but to step into this country. If you cherish any such idea, we will not fail to resist you with all the might we can muster." But in the next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst...
...Gandhi knows India and Britain as intimately as his own loin cloth. He distrusts the U.S., even though Indian newspapers are continually printing such appeals as that of the pro-Congress Delhi Evening National Call: "We appeal to President Roosevelt, and through him to the freedom-loving people of America, in the name of democracy to intercede and effect a settlement before it is too late...