Word: recpolman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian followers of Mr. Gandhi were not as thoroughly saturated as he believed with his mass-martyr ideology. They began to riot at Assam, to strike in Bengal, to massacre at Malabar. The nation was unquestionably roused to such a pitch of fervor that, at one word from "Recpolman" Gandhi, the most terrible grapple and insurrection of modern times would have begun. George V knows how many of his subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven-day ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose...
...recpolman," Mr. Gandhi is driving at something which can best be illustrated by stating an extreme case. A naked Indian steps up to an English policeman and says: "Either get out of my country or kill me." The policeman kills him. Another Indian steps up and the process is repeated, another and another and another and another and another. After several Indians, the English policeman perhaps suddenly realizes that he is a murderer, remembers the Divine command ''Thou shalt not kill!" He throws away his pistol, bursts into sobs of penitence, scuttles out of India. Or perhaps he goes...
Salt & Opium. As he painfully kept up his 200-mile walk, last week?not like an imaginary Statesman Stimson trudging to London?but as the unique "Recpolman" Gandhi, breathless spectators watched...
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