Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passive Mr. Gandhi, as the guiding spirit of the Indian National Congress and active, socialistic Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, its operative President, consulted with Congress leaders promptly after the provincial elections. Adopted was a nation-wide policy that no Indian National Congress partyman will accept office in one of the new provincial cabinets unless the British Governor of that province gives and keeps a formal pledge to act only on the advice of the province cabinet-just as the Emperor himself may act only on the advice of the British Cabinet. Last week every British Governor of an Indian province...
...Gandhi retired from official leadership of the Congress in 1934, but his scrawny fingers have never entirely left the helm. He is Conservative and friendly to Britain by comparison with violent Congress President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who is always preaching about "Socialism" and has keynoted that for Congressmen to take office under the new Constitution "would inevitably mean a kind of Partnership with Imperialism in the exploitation of the Indian people...
...Linlithgow in making the Constitution work, well and good. If they resort to wrecking tactics, the Constitution empowers first the provincial governors and ultimately the Viceroy completely to overrule the new Legislatures. At the special Wardha strategy committee last week, Mr. Gandhi was said to be for cooperation, President Nehru for wrecking. The Congress bigwigs who conferred with them were "about equally divided...
...Congress' fighting President, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, now its active leader. Britons accuse him of being semi-Marxian and he last week called them semi-Fascist in return. Roared Mr. Nehru...
...though smitten by invisible forces, Mr. Nehru broke off his discourse, withdrew and later announced that he had withdrawn all opposition to St. Gandhi. The. latter, as is his way, did not press his advantage. There would be time enough next day, he said, to vote on the vital issues, and after a few unimportant speeches the Congress rose...