,
v
~
Y
DY:
Toni ht,
i
the city of e
Delhi
in f
·
r off
Indi ,
·
-
ce e
of
almost
terrifying drama
t a
stately
vill called
8irla
Bouse, a
nta tic
a
as
en
cted.
great
ultitu
ea semb
ed, men
nd
omen.
Bour
after
hour,
t
ey
ja~ ed for
ard,
ad lines
of
police
could
bar ly hold
the.
They
cried
out
in
grief,
in
homage, in
adoration, ~nd
they demanded-a
1st
loo -at Gandhi.
They were about to overwhelm the police, about
to
storm into
Birla Bouse
when
the door
of
the
balcony
ope
ed.
Floo
lights
µlayed
their brilliant beans on the
balcony,
and all
the
ailing
eeping
thousands there in
the night could
see
clearly.
They were the audience for
a
vivid
hostly
pageant.
Through the door and out on the
balcony, brilliant
i
the
floodlights,
came several men
carrying
t
e boy of·
abat
a
G dhi.
They
placei
the
body in
a
chair,
and
the
lifeless G
u
ndhi,
s athed in a
bite sheet,
~
ced the
multitude of mourners.
His
brown
face, with
eyes
closed, calm
nd
tranquil in
th
e
_
_
_
f
_
loodlights.



















On
t
b
lcony
a
G
ndbi',
.
e1
hte
n
year old
g
rand-du
t
,
anu,
and she
no
~~
~~~t::xDlll!lllll
the
"'
culmin tin
ritu
1.
Amon
t
e
Hindus,
the foldin of
the
hands
befor
the
face,
is
a
symbol
of ble
sin.
And
so Gandhi's
rand-d ugbter folde
heron
hands before
Gandhi's
face.
That
was bis
last blessing.
Then the
huge
throng burst into a
frenzy
of
lamentation
s
thus the Dead Gandhi
pa1s bis
fixal
fare~ell to India.
The latest
ne s
of
the
as assin tion brin s new
details: ~he crime stemmed out of Ghandi's recent fao,
bis
penance, the fifteentl d rin bis life. The killer
name
Ram Naturam, is a
Hindu
stremist,
a
mea~er
of a
group of fanatic consistin
lar
yon Hindus
and Sikhs
w
ho
were driven out of oslem Pakistan; survivors of
obammedan massac e, savagely embittere
to the de
t
gainst
the Pa istan
Moslems.
Gandhi's fast as in behalf of peace.)
At
that
timE
ar
ataged de
monstrations a
inst him,
the advocates of
•
d
· , •
sut
Gandh
1·
won conces iomi
shouting --
Let Gandhi
1e.
















fro
the
Bin
u Government, and
roke
is fast --
inn r
of
victor
or
peace.
That enra
e
the fanatic,
all the
or
nd
ne
of
them t re
bomb
fe
days
ago, but
f
r
i
to
'
i
1
i.ndh1·.
N
b
o ,
o
e
v r, a second
assa
in tion
attempt
as successful.
Gandhi
w
s
oin
from
Birla House
to
a·prayer
e
ti
in the
arden.
The seventy-eight-ye r-old
Mahatma
lke
feebly after his fest, le nin on a long
~an•)
Be
as
talking to the Deputy
Pr
mier of Hindustan --
Patel.
The irony ·s th
t
Vice Pr mier Patel, himself,
belon s to the
ar party, and Gandhi
as arguing
with
bi, pleading
for
measures
th t
ould
brin
about
peace
wit
the
osle
s.
The
Vice
r mier bad intended to
accompany
Gahdhi across the garden to the prayer meeting,
but somebody called him aside to speak to him, and
Gandhi
went
on alone.
A group of his disciples
were
aitin.
Be
stopped
to
speak
to
friend.
leside
thi
frien
s
a
iall, be
.
vily built
man wearing
a uniform
of military
Ibaki.
Bis bands
~re
folde
d
to ether in
be



















g!.HJ2il
-
4
Hin u
tur
0
r
tin
.
But
bet
en
is
and
a
pistol.
Be
ised
it,
and shot
G
nd
i
three
ti
e
.
Gandhi
fell
and died
cimost inst ntly.
ut before
be expir
,
h
as
able
to
fold
hi hands acros
his
face
--
Hindu symbol o
ble
in
·
.
B wae
blessin
the
mur
erer,
a
e
died.
The
as
himself, but
ssi1/i mediately turned the pi~tol on
a
sei
ed
by
Gandhi's
followers.
The
bullet be fire merely razed
is scalp.
Betas
about
to be
torn to pieces,
when
police intervened,
and took
him o f to prison.) He is no
b ng held incommunicado
and interrogated.
Thus passes Mahatma
Gand i, the great
soul.
To
all of
Indi
he
a
the
ahatma which means
--
Great So
There
as an immediate outbre k of
v:ial.ence today
-
in Boma,.
The moment
the
news of Gandhi's death
· t·
Te
me
ning of the riotin was not
r10 1n
be
an.
cle r __ a
the vast majority of India's milli ns
ere
plun
ed
into mournin.
The
r
test manifest
tion
of
National
·
n
in Indian history.















This
dark
news from India takes memory back to
str
a
n e
and
excitin days of the
ea
rly
Nineteen Twenties.
I
wain
India then, right at the time when Gandhi
launched
his
Bon-Cooperation Movement! his first
appeirance
in the
world headlines.
ir
veling
about
India at that timo, suddenly
we
began to see Hindus, aostly in Bombay Privince, Benga
and the
United ~r,vinces
-- particularly in such cities
as Cawnpore and Lucknow -- we sa
~
thea wearing little
white caps -- the Ganihi cap, which soon becaae a
fa■ iliar
article of attire - all over India, aade of
homespun cotton cloth -- symbolizing one a1pect of the
Gandhi movement, his doctrine of home-weaving, the
14•~
that the people of
.ndia
should make their own cloth in
their households, and thereby
sto
buying textiles
troa
Britan.
Strike a blow at the
great
mills of Lancaster
and Hottingham.
That origilal non-cooperation campai
g
n
ad
all the
.
f
th
that were to follow;
curious aspects
o
o ers
Hindus by the millions adopting
Gandhi's
idea of
non-









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6
.
.
.
.
.
.
violence -- refusin
g
to move, refusing to turn a hand;
eVP.D
~a
g
ing such sin
g
ular demonstrations as lyin
g
flat
in the stre
e
ts, by/the hundreds~ to stop traffic.
There was violence too, right from the
beginning,
as there always
was,
in those Gandhi crusades of
non-violence - the irony of which now culainates
in auoh
fearful dramatic fashion, the reat apostle of
non-violence dying by the violence of pistol ahots.
In those days, the early Nineteert
Twenties,! have
n&ver heard of Gandhi.
But during
a two year journey
I was making t~th Francis Yeats-Brown, the
B•n1al Lance
we came upon Gandhi, at the city of Poona, in jail.
The British had just locked b'kl up, for the first of
many
times.
And ther
e
it was that I learned just how all
tbi1
h
t
It as a Stl,an
g
e story he told; the
ad come abou.
cause of his
animosity
to•ards the might British Empire;
bow he happened to embark on the caree~ that was to
make
him the Mahatma, the Rebel Saint, a sort o
f
mystical
Mes
s
iah for the teeming aillions of Hindu India -- and a





















,
world
fi ureas well.
Gandhi
was
born
into
the
e
ind
.
u ca
t
.
e of
·
•
~
merchants,
neither of the highest cast, or of the lowest. Be
was not a hau
g
hty twice-born
Br hmin;
nor was he a
Lowly Sudra.
0
He had bad
En lish ~oling, Jn India;
then
he
went to England, where be
studied
law, and was
admitted to the Temple Bar -- which gave
i ■
first rank
status as a lawyer in London.
During The First World War, he served with the
British Army in Fr~nce, as a stretcher bearer.
Tben tie
returned to India, and set up as a iawyer.
Thus
far
Mohandas Damacband Gandhi -- •bat was
l
is full
na■e
--
was
like ahost of other westernised Hindus, and he see
likely to make the
nor■ al
progress of an English -
educated Hindu Lawyer, rising to high legal poeition
in the
British
Raj.
What turned Gandhi
fro■
the career of a lawyer to
that of saint? Be said it all happened in East Afrioa,
Of
Indl·ans bad immi ra
t
ed -- during
where,
number
World War I, __ settlements of Hindus in East and South
















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-
8
Afric
a
.
And
they
they
were
e
t
n '
only
a
a
in
st
--
so
they
said.
ere
complaining of the treatment
parti
a
l citizenship,
discriminatld
So th
ey
w
ere appe
a
lin
g
to the
South Afric n
.
Courts.
And they hired
lawyers; one of
them Yohanda Iamacband Gandhi.
Accozin
g
to the story he told there
at Poona,
Attorney Gandhi
as takin
t
the case in bis
legal
stride,
until one day in East Africa
he
boarded
a
train.
I
believe it was
at the city of Dar
Ea
Salaam.
Be got
a oo ch,
a
first class oompament, for
w
hich
be had
tbe
ticket.
The train was crowded, and, a fe•
~
inutes before
was
to pull out along came
a
British Colonel, servants
carryin
bis
baggage.
Tbe
C lonel had no
ooapartaent;
and wanted one.
laltlngalong
and peering into the
windows,
railroad coaches are
built
that
way out
there,
be
a
looked
into
one compartment
fter another.
he came to the one that Gandhi occupied.
The
Colonel
not
e
d the little dark Hindu;
be wa
r
neveT very
prepossessing -- he pointed •ith bis• lkin
stick,
and











told his
servants
to 'get that
fellow
out.•
The
servants
obeyed the command and lawyer
Mohandas
K.
Gandhi, member
oft
e
Lona~n
bar,
wa
unceremoniously ejected, ba
g
and
bag age.
The Britieh
Colonel took over the compartment, • ile Gandhi climbed
humbly into some c owded secti
of
the train.
That be said was what caused him to turn
against
the British Raj.
At any rate that as the story he told
that day at Poona.
The Colonel, and railway inoid~nt
transforming him into the
a
rch
ene ■y
of the Britab
Empire.
But of course the 1,gal fight be wa
waging
own people in East Africa, that aay bav be,
~
the real
turning point -- what actually
put
him
against
the
rulers of India -- those
■odern auccessorstofClive and
Lawrence and all the others who created Britain's
fabulous Empire in Hindustan.
Gandhi reverted to his ancestr 1 Bindom, which,
with its mystical philosophy, prevente
a
warlike enemy.
him~• beoomint
l
l
1
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iAIUlll
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10
Pa
ss
ive re
s
istance is
a
n old ide
a
in the Orient;
an
d
,
s
oon
a
f
t
er
Ga
ndhi formul
a
ted
h
is d~ctrine of
n
o
n-viol
e
nce -
as
a
wa
y of rebelli
o
n, as a
way
of
rebellion -- even as a
w
a
y
of li
fe
.
Fro
m
then on he
oppo
s
e
d
violence
,
it
h
n
o
n-violence, pre
a
ching bis
of
Swaraj -- pe
a
ce.
Bi
&
we
a
pons were fastin
g
, prayer, penance. These
be
used with tremendous ef
f
ect
ag
ainst the British.
lben Indian independence was
.
achieved
be
start~d
usin
g
it
ainst the blood-thirsty
batre~ of BiD4•
and
Moslem.
The British still locke
d
him up
fro■ tiae
to
time; and no• one of bis own people, a Hindu bas killed
•
him.
So, the d
=
ama
of
Gandhi ba
s
ended.
Tbe Saint of
Hindu Indi
a
bas fallen at tbe bands of an as
s
assin
~
f
bis own rac
e
and religion.
And tonight India is in
flame
s a
gain.
While right roun
d
the
g
lobe
■en
spe
a
k
witt
wonder, prespect and even awe, of th
a
t world figure know
for so lon as the little bro
w
n man in the loin clo t b.
d
President Truman issued a
In
W
ahin
g
ton to
ay











statement c llin Gandhi's death·.
•
A
tr
a
ic loss to the
whole world.•
In London, the
Archbishop
of C
a
nterbu~y led in
manifest
n
tions of grief for the loss of so
g
reat a
reli
ious leader
in
th
a
t land o
s
tr n
ge
religions -
Indi,
the teemin
sub-continent.
Of
a
l
l
the worldwide
ex
~
ressions,
the sharpest
come
s
from,
well
from where you ould expect --
fro■
George Bernard
Shaw.
Commenting
on the as1a1sination
of
Gandhi, Shaw
today
reaarked:
• I t
shows how
dangeroua
it is to
be
too good.•
Fro■
stunned India
tonight
an
announc1■1nt by
Prime
Minister
Jawaharal Rehru that Gandhi will be
creaated on the bank of the Boly Juana Biver,
toaorr~••
his body
placed
on a burning
ghat
behind the 1acr
e
d
river
in
the
manner
traditional to the Hindus.
The body of the
Mabat■a
borne by his
bloae friend•
and draped in Free India
'
·
S
new tri-color flag.
The flag
for
which
he
as
lar
g
ely resp nsibl
e
.
Fro
Ka~acbi,
capitol of Pakistan;
Mohammed
Ali




















GANDHI
- 12
------
Jinna, he
a
o
f
the ne
osle
m
Do
■
nion
1·n
expressing
bl
·s
sorrow sa1·d·.
"Whatever
o
1·
t·
.
r pol
ical differences
Gandhi
w
3.
ne
of
the
5
re
test of men.•
In London,
Pri
e
Minister
Attlee made a special broadcast hailing
Gandhi
a
•one
f
the outstanding figures of the aodern
world.
London
Meslems,
a
g
hast at the crime, are uraiag
Premier Ali Jin
a
of Pakistan to act
i ■■ediately;
do
so
m
et
hbg
to
keep the
e1t1t
aseination from doing serioae
harm to Hindu-Moslem relations.
At Lake Success Byron Price Acting SecretaPy
General of the Uni
.
ed Nations ordered the
O. I.
flag to
be flown
~t
hal
f
-mast for three days; and be furt er
or
d
ered that the fla
~
s of the fifty-s
e
ven
m
aber
nations be hauled
down durin
6
th
t ti••·
Said
Gro■yto
of
Russia:
•Gandhi left a deep aark on the
history
of
India and
er peoples.•
Zafrulla
h
lahn of Pakistan
told
the Counci
l
that
Gandhi's
de th meant the
re■o•al
of th•
And as a fu rther tribute to Gandbi
keystone
of
µ
eace.
the United Nati
o
ns Security Council adjourned.













CASHES
------
ro
Fr
·
nce, word of a O.
s.
Army
C-47 wrecked
in
the
French
A
l
ps
, twelve aboard.
A B-17 with ten
went
in
search
for
the missing
plane,
reported
that the
wrec
~ag
e ha
d
been sighted, and then the B-17
crashed ia
the
mount ins, with
only one
survivor.
nd
in the Atlantic, an airliner ia
als1h&,
wit
h
B
ritish
A
ir
~arshall
Sir
Arthur
Coninahaa aboard.
n
The plane is believed to have been forced
down at••••
fou~
hundred miles east of Bermuda,
with
thirty
aboard.
Sir
A
rthur Coningham, in
the recent
war,•••
oouaader of
the
allied
t
ctical air forces.
This baa been a dark b»oadoaat indeed. Bat
here's
one lighter
item:-- Th• one-ti••
babe
of th•
movies
.
J
no•
a
maaa.
Today at
Santa
Yonioa, Califoraia,
Shirley Temple's
husband, John
Aaar, was
told
•It'••
girl."
h
irley, no•
nineteen, though
it•••••
only
yesterda
y
th
a
t she was the clever little mi•• of th•
mot·on
p
icture
screen.
And
no• the onetime ayabol of
c
h
ildhoo
hus a
child of her own.













Q
ASH
E
S -2
It's always wise to be born into
good
circumst
a
nces -
a
s the r gamuffin said to
the yoani
prince.
:n
d
S
hirley Temple's little girl
arri••• ia\o
an a
bund
a
nce the
l
i
k
e of which no
princaaa ha• •••r
enjoy
e
d -
a
n
a
bund
a
nce in one respect at
leaat.
ua
h
irley, herself, was the baby d
a
rlin& of \be
■o•l•••
fans from a
l
l
o
ver the world sent her a
total
of
flt\••
hundred
dolls
a
nd
she
must ha•• plenty
left. Sht.rl•J•
as t
h
e child star, lived in a doll's
she'll t
a
ke her b
a
by there - and
the roaaao• of
chi
l
dhood will be played all over
agal.D.
ow, ~elson, what
fro• you?