Word: aly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gandhi's insistence, the Working Committee refused to participate in the interim government of India unless the British agreed to name at least one Moslem to the Congress Party group in the interim government. Such a provision would further infuriate the Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Gandhi was very tough in handling the opposition to his policy. Objecting to newspaper stories about the negotiations, he dropped his air of outward benevolence, cried: "If I were appointed dictator for a day in place of the Viceroy, I would stop all newspapers-except, of course, Harijan" (Gandhi...
...years Mohamed Ali Jinnah had kindled the fires of civil war with his slogan "Pakistan or die!" Last week, as tan dust swirled through New Delhi on the year's hottest day (112°), it was up to Jinnah to cool off his Moslem League...
Last week, in the cool hills of Simla, the man who could make or break the British plan for an independent Indian government spoke 2,500 cautious words. Mohamed Ali Jinnah criticized the plan, but notably refrained from calling on his Moslem followers to resist...
...Indian factions facing each other across the table at Simla had not been able to agree on the independence they all demanded. The predominantly Hindu All-India National Congress insisted on a strong central government for all of India. Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League insisted that the Moslems should have an independent state of Pakistan, separate from Hindu India. At Simla both advanced from these extreme positions, but they never reached common ground...
...green hills to the viceregal lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru rode on a brown-and-white-spotted Yarkand pony; fierce-eyed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and goateed Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad each came in a ricksha pulled by four runners; tall, bearded Khan Abdul Ghaffar came on his own long legs; Mohamed Ali Jinnah and his Moslem League delegation in an ancient, khaki-colored Humber sedan...