The sentence doesn't make it clear anything about Gandhi's model being new. It also doesn't talk about followers or how creative Gandhi was, since it is not clear if he created the model by himself. It does show, though, that it worked by using words like "appealing" and "successful".
The Berlin Airlift was one of the defining events of the Cold War. American and British cargo planes delivered over 2.3 million tons of supplies to the citizens of Berlin during a Soviet blockade of the city from June 1948 to May 1949.
