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Perhaps. But Dominion status would confer undeniable advantages. India would join a free concert of nations who wielded an influence in world councils more potent than the sum of their parts. Industrial India, with a swiftly rising output (mostly steel and textiles), would expand most rapidly under the careful nurturing of imperial preferences. If the princes* came in (as they almost certainly would in time), the Dominion of India would become a mighty anchor in the storms that might ravage postwar Asia...
Faith, Wisdom, Courage. Then in the green-walled conference room Lord Wavell addressed the delegates. "It will not be easy," he said. "On the column which stands in front of the Viceroy's house are engraved these words: 'In thought faith, in words wisdom, in deed courage, in life service, so may India be great.' They will make a good guide for our confer ence." Then the Viceroy swore the conference's 21 delegates to secrecy about their discussions...
...Simla, India's cool summer capital, an old Harrovian, Indian Nationalist Jawaharlal Nehru, and other Indian leaders will confer this week with Viceroy
...since 1942. Heading the list were: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leftist disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi; Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem opposed to Pakistan (the idea of an independent Moslem India); Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bombay party boss. Then the Viceroy invited Congress and other political leaders to confer with him at Simla, the summer capital on June...
...what was perhaps more important. Harry Truman had made it plain that he is not mad at anybody, an attitude which he further delineated by inviting both Thomas E. Dewey and Alfred Landon to confer with him "any time they might be in Washington." Harry Truman seemed determined to use all U.S. brains, of whatever party. Was he paving the way to a new U.S. "era of good feeling...