Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With wisps of Axis battle smoke all but drifting across India's borders from Russia and Thailand, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his recently released companions in civil disobedience began to waken from their prison apathy and make concessions to the logic of events. Effective as Mahatma Gandhi's passive-resistance technique may have been against the relatively civilized British, its potential worth against enemy tanks and bombers appeared questionable...
...responsible opinion in India" is determined to support the war, the Government of India (acting for the Colonial office) decided to release civil-disobedience prisoners "whose offense has been formal and symbolic." Included were gentle, scholarly Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, President of the Indian National Congress, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, next to Mohandas K. Gandhi the most potent man in the Party...
...support of the war, and the hundreds of others who have been and will be released on the same grounds, are no longer regarded as having power for serious mischief." To Congressmen in India this was a fine piece of wishful thinking. They had in mind Jawaharlal's (Nehru's popular name in India) five previous, more rigorous prison terms. They knew that his opinions had not changed, that his mischief value had increased with each term he served. Cheered and garlanded with flowers when he was released from prison last week, Nehru, almost at the jail...
...most notable autobiography was that of the Indian Nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru ($4); the most engaging was John Masefield's In The Mill ($2); and for those interested there was Editor in Politics ($3.50), second volume in Josephus Daniels' cracker-box marathon of total recall. Henry Mencken (Newspaper Days) also continued his memoirs...
...Nehru's level, toneless style so dignifies what he says that his occasional attacks of angry oratory are excusable...