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...comment on the unbelievable restraint exercised by President Yahya Khan in the face of continuous provocations by India. Each and every Pakistani proposition was rejected by the "peace-loving" followers of Mahatma Gandhi. Was there ever a better example of dire contradiction in the sayings and actions of a civilized government...
...Baudelaire and Hemingway were notorious. For other public men the close, personal scrutiny has come posthumously. A recent biography published a quarter century after Franklin Roosevelt's death focuses on his cruelty to Eleanor and--according to George Orwell--even Mohandas Gandhi was something less than a Mahatma. What is interesting is that so often with famous men the same inclinations that led to their public success also led to their personal failures...
Though patterns were her favorite preoccupation, people's faces brought her the most fame. Bourke-White portraits of suffering slum dwellers or world statesmen showed the same deep sensitivity. Her persistence and unceasing quest for perfection once led Mahatma Gandhi to dub her "the torturer." Churchill scowled memorably for her; she coaxed a rare smile out of a stone-faced Stalin, she explained, by assuming "all kinds of crazy postures searching for a good camera angle." In World War II she became the first accredited woman war photographer. While covering Russian soldiers fighting the Nazis within 150 miles...
Instead of bringing peace, independence and partition brought horrible massacres, with Hindus killing Moslems and Moslems killing Hindus. Shortly be fore his assassination in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi undertook what proved to be his last fast to halt the bloodshed. "All the quarrels of the Hindus and the Mohammedans," he said, "have arisen from each wanting to force the other to his view...
...mission, even destiny. As Nehru's only daughter, she grew up "a child of the nation," known and loved by all. She saw her parents and grandfather frequently carted off to jail. As a teenager, she organized children demonstrators-"the Monkey Brigade," they were called-for Mahatma Gandhi...