Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week President Roosevelt's envoy to India, William Phillips, announced that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
From his bench in New Delhi last week India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer handed down a bombshell decision: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and 8,000 other Congress party leaders were being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...
...Theatre at 8 o'clock by Lt. Col. Herber G. Espy of the Special Service Division, Services of Supply, War Department. Tomorrow, leading a discussion of focal areas in world affairs will be Lin Mousheng, author of "Men and Ideas" and editor of "Contemporary China," Anup Singh, author of "Nehru, the Rising Sun of India," and editor of "India Today," and lastly Capt. Sergei Kournakoff, author of "Russia's Fighting Forces...
...London editor of the United Press of India in 1940 he came into personal contact with British Cabinet members, and at the same time maintained close association with Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian leaders. In March 1941, he made a visit to India, conferring with the most important persons in the country...
Other speakers will be Anup Singh '34, author of "Nehru, the Rising Star of India," and editor of "India Today," who is also director of research of the India League in America, will discuss India and World Events. The present situation in Russia will be described by Captain Sergei Kournakoff, author of "Russia's Fighting Forces...