Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ironic deadlock remains. Britain's objections cannot be soundly judged unless India's suggestions are tried. If Britain's objections proved valid, it would then be too late for India. But there can be no paper solution to the India problem. Mohandas Gandhi has renewed his demands for Indian independence at a time when the United Nations' cause can scarcely afford to ignore one of the"Orient's greatest leaders...
India's leaders, especially Mohandas Gandhi, are often badly misunderstood in the West. They are, indeed, not easy for most Western minds to understand. One difficulty is the fact that their statements, as carried in the Western press, are frequently too brief to be illuminating. Below is an extended interview with Gandhi, cabled from India last week by TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden...
...found Gandhi flat on his back on a white mattress laid on a clean-swept floor made of cow dung...
...body was a simple cotton loincloth, the thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...
Nonviolence. Gandhi insisted that a method of nonviolence [against Japan] could not only be effective but was the only course open to him. Said he: "We have no army, no military resources, no military skill, and nonviolence is the only thing we can rely on. Of course we can't prevent invasion: the Japs will land, but they will land on an inhospitable shore. We do not need to kill a single Jap; we simply give them no quarter. We may be unable to withstand their terror and may have to go through a course of subjection worse than...