Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delhi last week that airplane pilots clad only in shorts said they were still comfortable at 20,000 feet. Was Mohandas Gandhi crazy with the heat...
Under the blazing sun, little Mohandas Gandhi's faith in the non-violent noncooperation which he urges for India's defense reached such furnace temperature that he wrote in the journal Harijan: "The presence of the British in India is an invitation to Japan to invade India. Their withdrawal would remove the bait. . . . Free India would be better able to cope with the invasion. Unadulterated noncooperation would then have full sway...
...full contingent of newly arrived U.S. correspondents from A.P., U.P., I.N.S., CBS and NBC. Thus is created a new U.S. newsfront. Least well covered of all major countries, India was formerly a kind of Dark Continent for U.S. newspaper and wire services. Exception was the occasional flying interview with Gandhi. Until the fall of Singapore, the only U.S. news bureau established in India was TIME...
Ramann, lately stationed in London, has been broadcasting to India nightly. A member of a prominent Hindu family from the province of Madras on the East coast of India, he has had much personal contact with most of the nation's political leaders, including Gandhi, Nehru, and Mahandas Ali Jinnah, leader of India's 80,000,000 Moslems...
...dissension, many political leaders with great followings were urging fighting war against the Japanese. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru joined C. R. in advocating all possible guerrilla tactics. So did Communist members of the Congress. There was no doubt that India's Moslems would fight. But it seemed clear that Gandhi was a good deal closer than C. R. or Nehru to the mind of most of India's Hindus...