Word: chakravarthi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making his first official call on India's new Governor General Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov* addressed "Rajaji" as "Your Excellency." When the Governor General expressed surprise at his use of the title, Novikov explained:"We dropped the custom after the Revolution, but later felt that it had been a mistake."† "What?" Rajaji inquired sweetly. "The Revolution...
Last month Gandhi invited Jinnah to talk it over. Jinnah squirmed. But persuasive, popular, moderate Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who had talked Gandhi into accepting the Pakistan idea, constituted himself a one-man arrangements committee. From his comfortable Madras law office he kept the wires busy. Jinnah agreed to the meeting he had refused since...
...East, India's leading political figures (excluding those in jail), industrial tycoons and Europeans met at Delhi within a stone's throw of the Maharaja's palace now occupied by William Phillips, the Boston Brahman who is President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League) joined...
...vote showed a surprising docility among Labor M.P.s, some of whom were rumored earlier to be urging Sir Stafford Cripps to resign his War Cabinet post in protest against Tory policies. It came a few days after 56 prominent Britons had signed a 400-word appeal to liberal, able Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") urging him to form a national Government. C. R. flatly contradicted a recent Cripps statement that Gandhi had personally aborted an attempt at an Indian settlement last spring. Of the Secretary of State for India's speech, Rajagopalachariar said: "The drift is far too perilous...
...Jinnah, the Qaid-e-Azam (grand leader) and permanent president of the Moslem League, first threatened civil war if the British gave in to Gandhi. Still shouting for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), Jinnah then sought a conference with Gandhi on the question of a wartime national government. Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), who resigned from the Congress party in protest against violent threats of nonviolence, suggested arbitration by the United Nations...