Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beyond his own shores he would find no new name that had skyrocketed into world consciousness during the twelvemonth. Mahatma Gandhi, 1930's Man of the Year, is still a prisoner of Britain in the Poona jail and his Indian followers are quiescent if not quiet. Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, was swept out of the premiership of France last February, is today only a Senator without portfolio. The May elections put Edouard Herriot into power for six months but fortnight ago he and his Ministry went crashing out on the issue of paying...
Swords and arrows are the weapons of the Santals, simple hill folk in upper Bengal. Last week one of their chiefs suddenly decided that he was St. Gandhi. Shouting, "I am the Mahatma! I am Gandhi himself!" he led his tribe to Malda where they seized a local mosque...
...declare a new government!" cried the pseudo-Mahatma. "In the name of myself, Gandhi, I declare the independence of this district...
...Second Conference, with Mahatma Gandhi, was a world sensation and surprise package, opened by Prime Minister MacDonald in Queen Anne's red & gold drawing room at St. James's Palace. On the basis of the Second Conference's agreements & disagreements, the British Government tried subsequently to impose on India a settlement, certain features of which Mahatma Gandhi successfully resisted by his hunger strike (TIME, Oct. 3). Of one thing only the British felt certain: Burma, the eastern province of India, was to receive by her people's wish and by the Round Table's consent...
Question of Competence. Most surprisingly at this point the London Conference received a cablegram from Allahabad, where prominent Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs have been holding a ''Unity Conference." The cablegram, signed by Pandit Madan Mohan Mala viva, a Hindu leader much revered and close to Mahatma Gandhi, stated that the Unity Conference had united in rejecting the British proposals for "communal representation" and further agreed that "transference of the government from the British Raj to the Indian people is an indispensable step, preliminary to any other agreement...