Word: mahatma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange Household. When Author Wolfe, newly out of Yale, first encountered him in January 1937, Trotsky had just joined Mexico's impressive gallery of grotesques, and later did, in fact, figure in Mexico City's waxworks museum (wearing tweed knickerbockers), along with Emperor Maximilian and Mahatma Gandhi. Author Wolfe's version of Trotsky is itself a kind of waxworks figure (the writing sounds as if Ernest Hemingway were trying to parody Gromyko), but the book has the great merit of pointing to Trotsky's moral dilemma: Would he have used power less ruthlessly than Stalin...
Indian public opinion, long nearly as hostile as the Roman Catholic Church to contraceptive measures, seems to be veering about. The newspaper Indian Express editorialized that it was time to recognize that even Mahatma Gandhi, who also opposed birth control, was not infallible: "As in some other matters where the Mahatma's outlook was rigid and doctrinaire, time, along with an oppressive sense of the realities, has induced a change." A fervent Gandhian disciple, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru added his persuasive voice by acknowledging that "a tremendous crisis might arise in the world with an indefinitely growing population." Noting...
...year-old daughter, Indira Gandhi, emerged as the leading candidate for the presidency of the Congress Party, a post held previously by both her father and her grandfather. A veteran politician and a sloe-eyed, animated woman, Indira is married to M.P. Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), has two young sons, is a determined left-winger and a close confidante of her father, as well as his official hostess. The only foreseeable bar to her election next month would be Nehru's disapproval, and, in accepting the nomination, Indira remarked: "I don't think...
...from overseas with garlands. Prime Minister Nehru hailed him as "the symbol of African independence." From Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah had come for his first visit to Asian soil. "In Africa," cooed Bombay's Free Press Journal, "it is Dr. Nkrumah who wears the mantle of the Mahatma...
...first real vacation in twelve years. Accompanied by daughter Indira, Nehru loped off to a government guest house in the Himalayas for ten days of loafing, riding and sunbathing. Between jeep rides to local bazaars, Nehru finally got around to the job of editing letters between him, Mahatma Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw and Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore, discovered that white ants had long since eaten choice parts of the moldy papers...