Word: nehru
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Britain withdraw politically from India, and threatened to use all the possible nonviolence of the people to compel Britain to withdraw. The resolution did not alter Gandhi's position that he does not wish to interfere with United Nations military forces in India (TIME, July 13). But Jawaharlal Nehru explained that nonviolence envisaged more than industrial strikes-it would be a general strike, peaceful rebellion. Nehru's thesis was simple: only Indians could organize India for war, because anybody could do anything better than the Government of India today-that is a fundamental axiom...
...think this may be illegal," said one British official after he finished reading the resolution. There was no doubt that, by the law of India, Nehru, Gandhi and every member of Congress was subject to arrest. Gandhi and Nehru, both astute lawyers, knew the law. But both they and the British knew that India's problem was not to be solved by legalities...
...Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
Although Gandhi wants Allied troops to remain in India (TIME, July 13), he believes that immediate political independence is of the utmost importance for India's defense. On this subject, Jawaharlal Nehru made a shrewd psychological point last week. Said he: "Submission to England develops a spirit of submission...
When in jail, Nehru finds that "spinning on the charka (spinning wheel) and weaving niwar" (cotton webbing) "are delightfully soothing." Yet on the death of his father he does not quote the Vedas, but Edgar Allan Poe: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save by the weakness of his feeble will...