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...addition we are sending as many copies of TIME as we can squeeze aboard the planes for our troops in Iceland, Australia, Africa and India. The Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru will get TIME next week in his prison at Poona -and TIME goes by air to Madame Chiang Kai-shek all the way across the world in Chungking...
India & the World. It was the ninth time since 1921 that Pandit (Great Scholar) Nehru had gone to jail. Only twice has he been out for more than a year at a time. Yet for ten years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru...
...angry the Raj can get, how tough it can be, is an old and bitter story to Nehru. Last week, having jailed Gandhi, Nehru and other Congress leaders (including Nehru's sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit), the British claimed an early victory. At least 83 known killed, hundreds of others with broken skulls-this was the price Gandhi's followers paid for protest rioting in disobedience of Gandhi's policy of passive resistance. But though the first flames of riot were quenched, the fire went on underground...
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...
...Pandit ("Learned Brahman") Jawaharlal Nehru is a revolutionist, orator, humanitarian, philosopher, amateur swimmer. His book is 1) an extraordinary feat of intellectual gymnastics-most of it was written in torrid (112°) Indian prisons, where Author Nehru has spent about eight years for anti-British political activity; 2) a highly readable history of the world, with special emphasis on that part of it about which most Westerners know least-Asia...