Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas Gandhi, who recently resigned his leadership of the Indian National Congress when many of its members seemed more anxious about India's war defenses than about Gandhian nonresistance (TIME, Jan. 12), announced last week that his successor would be his old Party comrade, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
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...
...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...
After waiting vainly for a reaction from the British Government, Nehru boldly told a student group that India's warm regard for China, Russia and America justified war with Japan. His statement omitted any mention of Great Britain; he talked almost as spokesman for an independent India...
...Nehru's support rushed the former Premier of Madras, C. Rajagopalachariar, who termed the defense of India "an exception to the principle of non-violence." With irrefutable logic, Rajagopalachariar added: "Surely we cannot hope for emancipation at the hand of Britain's enemies...