Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When St. Gandhi entered New Delhi to do verbal battle with Viceroy Baron Irwin (TIME, March 2) at least 80,000 Indians mobbed him with acclaim. Affectionate pressure stove in a window of the Mahatma's automobile, showered his blanket with splintered glass. But last week the skinny little champion managed to leave New Delhi amid a demonstration twice as orderly, half as large. He had only signed a truce...
During the Irwin-Gandhi conversations, it was revealed last week, the Mahatma refused tea, drank hot lemonade containing a few grains of ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURED SALT. Thus the Viceroy became accessory to a crime. But under the truce signed last week any Indian may quarry salt or evaporate it from seawater for the use of himself or cattle, or even sell it within his village. Otherwise the salt trade remains a British prerogative...
After his third conference with the Viceroy, the Mahatma said: "The meetings have been conducted with much sweetness. The result is in the hands...
Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued...
...emergence of Mahatma Gandhi on the political scene of India is an event of considerable moment. In releasing the leader of the Indian Nationalist Party from jail the British government has opened a new phase of the political situation. When the recent Round Table Conference adjourned the Indian potentates left London apparently well satisfied with the new freedom, restricted though it is, that has been given...