Word: raj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
Change of Spirit? The Raj made one request of Gandhi: to keep political silence. The old man's intimates prayed that he would regain strength for one more grand effort. They spoke hopefully of a meeting between him and the Viceroy, a meeting that might wipe the slate clean, win at long last the cooperation of India's nationalists in the Empire's war. Said Devadas Gandhi's Hindusthan Times: "... Though the communique says the decision was taken on purely medical grounds, we permit ourselves the hope that this marks a change of spirit which...
...guess that he may have as many as 30,000 Indians from Malaya and from Jap prison camps. More important than the size of his army was one explosive fact: an armed, anti-British Indian stands today on Indian soil and calls upon his fellows to rebel against the Raj...
...traitorous Indian troops across the border, was said to have helped "annihilate . . . several British divisions." But even without believing these preposterous claims, Indians could well be impressed by the fact that except for raids by Afghan tribesmen India had actually been invaded for the first time since the Raj took over...
Died. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 74, famed British architect, head of the Royal Academy's committee for London's reconstruction; in London. Round-faced, white-mustached Lutyens, key designer of the Raj's splendiferous capital at New Delhi, was also the Protestant designer of Liverpool's Cathedral of Christ the King (Roman Catholicism's largest-to-be) and London's Whitehall Cenotaph (the Empire's preeminent World War I memorial). In 1927 he predicted a short life for Manhattan's "corroded" steel-frame skyscrapers...