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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...
...because "all 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...
Political leaders of both groups claim that their biggest aim is independence. The great Hindus, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, obviously work towards an India for Indians; but the leader of the Moslems usually thinks first about independence for Moslems and afterwards about independence for Indians. His name is Mahomed Ali Jinnah, and he is probably the greatest single force for disunity in all disunited India...
They were elated, too, over the visit to their capital of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked...
Outside of Asia's war personalities, Mr. Gunther was most fascinated by the Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, an "incredible combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall and your father"; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, an "Indian who became a westerner; an aristocrat who became a socialist; an individualist who became a great mass leader"; Emir Abdullah, of Trans-Jordan, who for laughs keeps a big concave-convex mirror in the entrance hall of his palace in Amman...