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...Delhi still had Gandhi's once potent political machine, the Congress Party, jacked up. Still at odds with Gandhi and his party was the increasingly powerful Moslem League. Still in jail were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Kalam Azad and some 8,000 other great & small leaders of the Congress Party. Even when, or if, the Congress Party recovered from British pressures and its own mistakes, and began to function again, it would not be the same without the binding personality of Gandhi...
Thoroughly disgusted, Allah Bakhsh, Moslem Premier of Sind Province and president of the All-India Azad (independent) Moslem Conference, returned to the government his Order of the British Empire and gave up his British title, Khan (prince) Bahadur. He announced that he was starting a movement of his own, to "fight British imperialism from within and foreign aggression from without...
...than counteracting these opinions were scores of other papers editorializing, like the Birmingham Post, that "it was imperative to scotch the disobedience movement at the start." The most bitter crackdown of all came from London's Daily Mail. "We are paying for past weaknesses," said the Mail. "Gandhi, Azad and Nehru . . . are now in jail. . . . They should have been there years ago. . . . From now on we should rule." The Mail urged that Congress leaders should be deported "as the Quislings they are." Gandhi, roared the Mail, is "a dangerous and unscrupulous politician whose sole desire is that...
...discuss ways of continuing to protest British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
Government by Whom? The Congress wanted immediate "recognition of India's freedom and right to self-determination." Wrote Congress President Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad to Sir Stafford Cripps: "The Committee do not think that there is any inherent difficulty in the way of constitutional changes during the war. . . . Certain important changes [can be made]. The rest can be left to future arrangements and adjustments. I might remind you that the British Prime Minister actually proposed a union of France and England on the fall of France. No greater or more fundamental change could be imagined, and this was suggested...