{"id":263,"date":"2011-10-03T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:47:22","slug":"louis-fischer-1896-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/03\/louis-fischer-1896-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Fischer (1896-1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foreign relations journalist (reported from Soviet Union for 14 years) who worked to promote Indian independence cause in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Met extensively with Gandhi and later published a biography, <em>The Life of Mahatma Gandhi<\/em>\u00a0(1950), which the Oscar-winning movie is based on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Primary Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Challenge<\/em>. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes account of Fischer&#8217;s, May 1942 trip to India and his meetings with Nehru and Gandhi<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No one imagines that independence will solve all of the problems of India. It will create problems. Freedom merely opens the door to the solution of the problems&#8221; (135).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Life of Mahatma Gandhi<\/em>. New York: Harper &amp; Row, Publishers, 1950.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ch. 38 &#8220;My Week with Gandhi&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi gave Fischer a letter to deliver to Roosevelt. Gandhi later asked if Roosevelt&#8217;s Four Freedoms: &#8220;include the freedom to be free?&#8221; (376)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Foreign relations journalist (reported from Soviet Union for 14 years) who worked to promote Indian independence cause in the U.S. Met extensively with Gandhi and later published a biography, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi\u00a0(1950), which the Oscar-winning movie is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/03\/louis-fischer-1896-1970\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39553,39557],"tags":[41107,41108],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-journalists","tag-fischer","tag-gandhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}