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...show that the British Government meant what it said, Lord Wavell ordered the release of eight Congress party leaders interned since 1942. Heading the list were: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leftist disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi; Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem opposed to Pakistan (the idea of an independent Moslem India); Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bombay party boss. Then the Viceroy invited Congress and other political leaders to confer with him at Simla, the summer capital on June...
...British Raj was in an appeasing mood last week. Ostensibly because "all responsible opinion in India" is determined to support the war, the Government of India (acting for the Colonial office) decided to release civil-disobedience prisoners "whose offense has been formal and symbolic." Included were gentle, scholarly Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, President of the Indian National Congress, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, next to Mohandas K. Gandhi the most potent man in the Party...
...arrest followed the pattern which since October has resulted in the jailing of some 5,000 Indians, including the President of the Indian National Congress (Abul Kalam Mohiyuddin Ahmed Azad), three onetime Presidents (Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Mrs. Sarojini Nai-du), four former Prime Ministers of Indian provinces, eleven former Ministers, five speakers of provincial legislatures, seven members of the Congress Working Committee (Cabinet) and 100-odd members of the Congress Executive Committee-practically every important Congress leader except Mohandas Gandhi himself...
Gandhi's next maneuver disposed of both Bose and the opposition Moslems. Up rose Congress President Abul Kalam Azad. He told the delegates that Gandhi wanted independence as much as Bose and would get it by shrewder means. Himself a Moslem, he was a flesh & blood answer to the Moslem League charge that the Congress leaves Moslems out of its counsels...
...President Bose's one-year term about up, Saint Gandhi looked around for a more tractable successor. Complicating factor, however, was that the President decided to run for another term, thus openly challenging the Gandhi leadership for the first time. First Gandhi nominee was bearded Persian Scholar Moulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Mohammedan. He promptly withdrew after being hooted out of a meeting. Nominee No. 2 was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gandhi's right-hand man. He also withdrew. Final choice was Dr. Patthabhi Sitaramayya of Madras, who received Saint Gandhi's and the Congress high command...