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Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu militant from an organization called Mahasabha (the Great Society). The Marshall Plan began. The state of Israel was born. In the summer of the Berlin airlift, Lyndon Johnson clattered across Texas in history's first campaign-by-helicopter--Lyndon swooping down ex machina to meet and greet the astonished farmers...
Trickle into Stream. In such local campaigns India's nationalist Mahasabha Party is doing its best to win back Hindus who have converted to Christianity. So far only a few have trickled back to Hinduism. But this tiny trickle is showing signs of growing into a stream. Next month the Mahasabha begins a nationwide drive for reconversion. And last week a six-man committee appointed by the state of Madhya Pradesh charged that Christian mission activity is "part of a uniform world policy to revive Christendom for the re-establishment of Western supremacy, and is not prompted by spiritual...
...would be riding a pony furiously over the steppes. It is no wonder that, at the age of 18. he planned (and might as well have pulled off) the rescue from Brixton Prison of his friend Vinayak Savarkar, who today leads India's "extreme religious Nationalists-the Hindu Mahasabha" (Papa Garnett retrieved his son before the scheme could be put into effect...
Gallup Poll. Calcutta's riots were one more triumph for the extremist Hindu Mahasabha Party, which opposes Nehru, accuses him of appeasing Pakistan. Even politicians who have been Nehru's friends have begun to turn against him on the Pakistan issue. Oldtime Congress Leader Tushar Kanti Ghosh used his daily paper, Amrita Bazar, to flail Nehru and urge war. He asked readers.for their opinions, got 200,000 replies, 87% of which favored armed attack or "police action" against...
Nevertheless, the strength of the Mahasabha war party was growing, and it would take all the skill that Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan could muster to bring peace out of the terror that stalked Bengal...