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...blaze of speculation and hope had sprung up around two secondary political figures-the Congress party's Bhulabhai Desai, 67, and the Moslem League's Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan, 49, who reportedly had set out to break the interminable deadlock. Both were members of the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi, both felt that they could negotiate with the British authorities more freely than their policy-bound leaders, Mohandas Gandhi and Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
First, soft-spoken Lawyer Desai had a talk with the Viceroy, Lord Wavell. Then he consulted Gandhi and his old friend Liaqat Ali Khan. Finally he came back to the Viceroy with a coalition proposal: until the war ends, Congress, the Moslem League and other minority groups should form an all-party interim government without holding elections. In the Central Assembly and the five provinces where elected Indian majorities refuse to share in the government, Hindus and Moslems would each receive 40% representation, minorities the rest. Since this would mean a resumption of Indian political responsibilities without involving wartime constitutional...
Died. Mahadev Hiralal Desai, 48, Mohandas K. Gandhi's private secretary, Indian Nationalist editor; of a heart attack; in British custody at Poona. A Brahman, he joined Gandhi when he was 27, shortly after his graduation from Bombay University. He became Gandhi's close personal adviser and "Boswell," edited the Gandhi weekly, Harijan...