Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pamphlets and the rallying cries of "Quit India," "Long Live Gandhi," "Long Live Nehru," "Hindus and Moslems are brothers" showed that, although driven underground, the Congress party machinery was still functioning. Lesser-known and unjailed party workers left the cities to organize strikes, sabotage and boycotts in the hinterland. After 20 years of instilling hatred of British domination in the minds of peasantry and middle-class intellectuals, they worked in well-seeded fields...
...agnostic, Nehru has not accepted all these ancient beliefs; but, as an Indian, he has appreciated that soul force is a strange power. He himself has experienced the feeling of elation and victory over his adversary when being beaten down by an ironbound club. To Gandhi, the Hindu philosophy translated into terms of democracy means "complete identification with the poorest of mankind, longing to live no better than they." To Nehru, poverty is an evil to be uprooted and corrected, not a burden to lie down with...
...Nehru & Nehru. In years behind bars, Nehru has looked deeply into his own soul, has found the rationalization of loyalty for his compromises with Gandhi and the Congress party. He has found himself vain at times (his Gandhi cap habitually covers his-baldness). He has found himself loving the adoration of the crowds. He has also yearned for the mountains of Kashmir, for security and the love of his family. But these he denies himself. Last week, at the age of 52, he was still so handsome that at least six women in India were reported sending away suitors...
...good guess was that Nehru was at Ahmadnagar Fort, about 200 miles from Bombay. Here the Duke of Wellington once lunched on a grassy bank outside the fort's huge stone walls. Here the British once kept prisoners of the Boer war. Here, more recently, they have interned Italians captured in North Africa. Here Nehru, who worked for Loyalist Spain, who cried out against Munich, who was shocked by Hitler's Brown Shirts and twice snubbed invitations for an interview with Mussolini, could look out bitterly on monsoon skies. Nehru alone knew what thoughts were in his mind...
Asia. In the minds of such men as India's Pandit Nehru and China's Chiang Kaishek, a new vision of world power has taken form. They hope to see a bloc of Asiatic powers, freed, enlightened and working as partners with the Western powers in the suppression of wars and the rooting out of poverty. In the way of that goal is old-style Western imperialism-and Japan. China has felt the hell of Japanese armies; India may feel it at any moment. But the Chinese fight for their own destiny. Millions of Indians, despite promises...