To cast down your bucket where you are means that you don't need to travel far in order to find what you are looking for - there are many valuable resources exactly where you are.
What Washington is trying to say here is that he wants both black and white people to work together and rebuild the South in order to make it prosperous and forget about their differences.
The first one. Since you are trying to persuade people to do/ agree with you, you'd have to use words like these
The country that had control of India when Gandhi was born is/was Britain. Hope this helped, have a good day :)
Answer:
he John never called to get an interview