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...with which Chiang Kai-shek hoped to cash in on India's potential fighting population of 352 million natives, on his visit to New Delhi last week. But Chiang did not suspect that the spirit of Kipling would frustrate all his appeals. He did not know that Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi's successor as Chairman of the Indian National Congress and symbol of India's nationalist movement, had spent two-thirds of his life in prison, cufflinked by the British Foreign Secretary...
...Mahatma Gandhi, 72, last week resigned the leadership of his Indian National Congress 'party. With the roar of Axis guns growing louder in their ears, many of Gandhi's sub-leaders could no longer follow his ways of non-violent resistance. Most of them are babus (educated men) who want political careers in an independent (or dominion-status) India and cannot imagine getting them from Adolf Hitler or Emperor Hirohito. The Mahatma would no longer try to lead men who would not follow. Rather than step from his principles, the ascetic little lawyer stepped from his leadership...
...While Mahatma Gandhi continued along the road of pacifism, his Congress comrade, Jawaharlal Nehru, declared: "Unlike Gandhi, most of us are not pacifists, but this war has convinced us of the futility of armed states trying to destroy each other . . . periodically. . . . We want no great powers-great in armed might-but free nations. . . . How can I fight for freedom when that very thing is denied...
Louis Michel Eilshemius, scrag-bearded, self-styled Mahatma, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art, spent half a century painting in obscurity, writing letters of self-praise to editors, growing poorer, bitterer, more desperate. In 1932, when he was 68, fame and recognition came to the old man. Two Manhattan galleries held exhibitions of his paintings, the Metropolitan Museum bought one. Last week, from the musty, gaslighted Victorian brownstone house his father left him (on which he was unable to pay the mounting taxes), Eilshemius was taken to Bellevue Hospital, placed in the psychopathic ward...
...Congress," admitted the hitherto recalcitrant Nehru, "is a political body and its attitude to the war is political, and not merely moral or ethical." He intimated the possible "self-effacement" of Mahatma Gandhi, whom, of course, no one thinks of asking to divorce his ethics from his politics. "India," Pandit Nehru went on, "is prepared to go for an all-in aid in the war, if her political aspirations are satisfied...