Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name he himself prefers-according to Nehru-rather than the addition of Mahatma. The suffix ji conveys an idea of simple respect in Hindustani and does not mean, as some might think, "dear little Gandhi...
Most Occidentals who heard these words thought, as usual, that Gandhi was completely balmy. But wildly exaggerated as Gandhi's faith in his own defense technique may be, it is not at all beyond possibility that the British-Indian Army's fighting may be aided to a degree by Gandhi's non-violent noncooperation...
...armies of non-violent non-cooperators might be a considerable obstacle. Gandhi's policy is anything but pacifism. It is organized mass resistance whose nearest U.S. equivalent is the sit-down strike. Gandhi's followers would obstruct Japan by refusing the invader their labor; they would not work in factories, run trains, operate telephones or telegraphs, draw water or grow crops for Japan. If Japan killed them for their resistance, it would not help Japan. And followers of Gandhi have sometimes proved their willingness to die-in front of streetcars or police, or in hunger strikes-for their...
Moral Basis. In answer to Occidentals who thought his Oriental formula fibreless, little Mohandas Gandhi last week declared that the U.S. and Britain lack the moral basis for waging war. In an interview with the United Press, he said that they could gain it only by giving all Asiatic peoples political independence and racial equality. The U.S., he said, might have brought about peace but had lost the opportunity; but even now it would be possible for the U.S. to withdraw from the war if she would divest herself of "the intoxication of immense wealth...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leafing through a muscle-building magazine, set eyes on an article by Charles Atlas in which the Muscle Mahatma expressed pity for "the poor little chap" Gandhi and offered to build him up, for nothing. Exclaimed Gandhi: "I have met some inventive Americans, but Atlas takes the first prize...