Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...momentary pause while the future hangs uncertain. By virtue of the Imperial Conference just completed in London India has achieved a small measure of self-government. That concession by the ruler to the ruled was the result of a reluctant realization by English statesmen that that politically astute saint, Mahatma Ghandi, has aroused the hitherto cowed population of India to such a united and determined stand for independence that they were no longer willing to continue the tradition of two hundred years absolute subjugation to British authority...
...Mahatma is not a "local resident" of Dandi. He is out to break the salt law publicly a second time. The first time he did not get away with it. This time he probably will...
March 26?World Grain Congress; at Rome. Purpose: to regulate grainselling on world markets. March 26? Session of Mahatma Gandhi's Indian Congress party; at Karachi, India...
...contrast to the Mahatma's moral winnings the Viceroy won substantial prizes...
Purna Swaraj. With equal frankness the Mahatma said that he, like the British Government, was taken completely by surprise when the Indian princes offered at London to federate their realms with the rest of India (TIME, Dec. 1). This put a new face on the entire Indian question, disposed St. Gandhi to think of modifying the original Nationalist Congress demand for purna swaraj...