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Died. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 78; by an assassin's pistol; in New Delhi (see INTERNATIONAL...
...twelve members of India's pre-independence government trooped dutifully down to New Delhi's "Untouchables Colony" last week. They were reporting to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the unseen presence in the councils of the new regime, what the first weeks of Indian sovereignty added up to. They...
Testaments of Youth Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 76, philosophic champion of self-discipline and nonviolence, got fed up with the violently undisciplined enthusiasm of his Indian followers: it kept him awake. On a tour through India they cheered him at every train stop. Cried he: "I cannot repeat this performance for many days, and hope to live to the age of 125"-the age he thought he might reach before he saw "the consummation of my ideas." Observed the ascetic, sleepless, not unhumorous Mahatma: "To inculcate perfect discipline and non-violence among 400 million is no joke...
Inspired Discernment. Then in Natal, South Africa, (circa 1905), a lean, struggling, expatriate Hindu lawyer, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, had a political discernment of genius: in God-obsessed India the politics of liberation must take the form of a religious struggle. Doffing his European store clothes and donning a dhoti, the little man moved against the British Empire in the name of four principles: satyagraha (acceptance of Truth), ahimsa (non-violence), swadeshi (home industry), swaraj (independence). From then on, the history of Indian-British relations has been a long, painful procession of thousands of nonresisting Indian nationalists passing...
...years Mohamed Ali Jinnah, head of India's Moslem League, has dodged Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Jinnah has declined to discuss, man to man, the League's lack of relations with the All-India National Congress. Last July Gandhi accepted the Moslem League's Pakistan principle-autonomy for all Indian areas with a Moslem majority-and again proposed a meeting with Jinnah. Jinnah said yes, but fell sick. Gandhi bided his time...