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Last week Pandit Nehru refused any longer to compromise. Shortly after the recent re-election to the Congress presidency of Subhas Chander Bose, Bengal Leftist leader, over the opposition of M. K. Gandhi, the Mahatma withdrew his support from the organization he had long nurtured. Soon most of the other well-known leaders who had worked with Mahatma Gandhi followed suit. For Pandit Nehru, however, there was a difficult choice: he was doctrinally sympathetic toward Mr. Bose but his personal devotion to the Mahatma was intense. He finally chose devotion and, in a bitter letter to Mr. Bose, resigned...
...strengthen it. The rank and file of Congress members were already clamoring to oust them. Many of the old Congress high command resigned because they wanted to avoid the ignominy of dismissal. The Mahatma's spiritual appeal has long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint Gandhi and his followers but with the exacting, "unreasonable" Mr. Bose...
...looking forward to a visit of Buddha Bose and Bishnu Charan who are touring many universities displaying their physical power...
Last week the delegates of the All-India Congress Committee met for the annual elections. Unexpectedly they turned thumbs down on Leader Gandhi's man, re-elected Leftist Bose, by a vote of 1,575-to-1,376. Saint Gandhi took his defeat hard. He charged fraud, claimed the Congress was fast becoming a "corrupt organization" and intimated that his supporters might bolt the Congress organization. The Mahatma himself is not a dues-paying member of Congress. To President Bose his re-election was simply a victory for anti-federation...
Many Britons have of late forgiven Saint Gandhi his past sins as leader of the anti-British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...