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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Mohamed Ali Jinnah, head of India's Moslem League, has dodged Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Jinnah has declined to discuss, man to man, the League's lack of relations with the All-India National Congress. Last July Gandhi accepted the Moslem League's Pakistan principle-autonomy for all Indian areas with a Moslem majority-and again proposed a meeting with Jinnah. Jinnah said yes, but fell sick. Gandhi bided his time...
First he must try to end the deadlock between the truculent Moslem League and the All-India National Congress. To the League's President Mohamed Ali Jinnah last month he offered recognition of the principle of Pakistan-the right of a Moslem majority to set up an independent Moslem state. For years Gandhi had brushed off the Pakistan idea as the "vivisection of Mother India...
...week's end reluctant Mohamed Ali Jinnah had worried himself into the last resort of a statesman: he was taken sick. His meeting with Gandhi would have to be postponed...
...same years, his most potent Indian rival had grown in power. As Gandhi speaks professionally for India's Hindu masses (255,000,000), so Mohamed Ali Jinnah speaks professionally for India's Moslems (92,000,000). Jinnah maintained that Hindu-Moslem unity was impossible. He insisted that, in a free India, autonomy should be granted to areas where Moslems are in the majority, and he called his doctrine Pakistan. Gandhi called Pakistan a perpetual vivisection of Mother India, held until last week that the whole Hindu-Moslem question should be postponed until independence is achieved...
...livery). He has talked with Gandhi before his arrest in his mud hut at Wardha ("he is Bernard Shaw one minute and St. Francis the next")-with Jawaharlal Nehru at the homes of friends in Delhi ("the most truly simple man I have ever known")-with Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah at his marble-lined villa in Bombay ("an Indian George Arliss, complete with monocle...