Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teacher at Howard's School of Religion is small, earnest Vice President William Stuart Nelson, 65, a longtime religion professor and onetime friend of Mahatma Gandhi. His 20 students, one-third of them white, attend for good academic reasons but also to learn wiser leadership...
...61st Cavalry pranced by on spirited horses; the 13th Grenadiers Camel Corps galumphed past, and troops of elephants ponderously raised their trunks in salute. More meaningful to many Indians was the sight of a British Queen laying a wreath of 500 white roses at the shrine of Mohandas Gandhi...
Another delusion is that of unilateral disarmament and Gandhi-like nonviolence. Hungary 1956, Jaspers makes clear, is the way Russia would have dealt with Gandhi. World government is an abstraction dear to many, but Jaspers insists that it could only be established by conquest and maintained by despotism. Harshly he calls the U.N. "a basic untruth." Its executive power depends "not on the United Nations but solely on the policies of the sovereign powers...
...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, keeping in anxious touch with developments while making a tour of Uttar Pradesh, the fast-and the whole Sikh effort-presented a number of galling ironies. In the first place, fasting as a political weapon was developed by Nehru's nationalist mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, but is now regarded by New Delhi as in bad taste. Secondly, to justify keeping Master Tara Singh in jail without proof of crime, Nehru a month ago had to insist on a further extension of the same Preventive-Detention Act passed originally under British rule to allow the imprisonment...
...have made stabbing and shooting an everyday affair in the city." But though many of them privately agree with the Hindustan Times, few members of India's ruling Congress Party dare to say so openly for fear of exposing themselves .to the charge that they are repudiating Gandhi and the constitution...