Word: ghandi
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...unaware, I presume, that the aims and aspirations of the Ghandi party are. comparatively speaking, as representative of Indian feeling as Communism is of American ideals...
Sympathize with Saint Ghandi if it so pleases you, and, by all the Gods, even the most uncompromising Englishman respects his piety and idealism, but do not deceive yourself that complex India would ever beatify a Hindu philosopher as California has her Krishnamurti...
...application of ornithological precepts to the realties of a big game hunt is at best a futile, at worst a fatal procedure. In India, Ghandi has salted the lion's tall and has been rewarded with a growl which bodes ill for the experiment. At the outset the novelty of his methods so perplexed an administration habituated to gestures of a more conventional nature that the situation developed into a diplomatic sparring match of considerable entertainment to spectators with a taste for intrigue of a musical comedy variety...
Recent developments indicate, however, that Indian enthusiasm for rebellion when once aroused, shows an alarming tendency to transcend the pacific limitations imposed by Ghandi's program. The situation in India today can well be viewed with alarm by British officials. It has become necessary to remove all women and children from the vicinity of Peshawar where violence is at fever heat. At Chittagong an attempt to cut off all communications resulted in an indiscriminate massacre of Europeans and natives. At Simla some fifty casualties have been reported...
...other supports for his conviction were based on the work which missionaries had done. He cites Ghandi's work in India, and the call that had been raised for church workers both in foreign lands and in the London Police Courts...