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...that all India had ever gotten from the British was a series of double-crosses. During the last World War, India was promised "a greater degree of freedom." Then, at the Treaty of Westminster in 1931, the British conveniently forgot this promise, although they gave the virtual independence of dominion status to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and other lands hitherto burdened by the white man of Albino...
When the grinning, skirt-clad Premier arrived in London last fall, he had one thought in mind: to pry a promise of dominion status for Burma out of the British Government. But he got small change out of Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for India & for Burma Leopold Amery, and the rest of British officialdom. Churchill, said U Saw, was "very blunt," adding that he himself had been very blunt in return. As the ultra-nationalist Premier left Britain for Burma, via the U.S., he remarked Delphically that the Japanese were very clever people and that "we would rather trust...
...Indian National Congress 'party. With the roar of Axis guns growing louder in their ears, many of Gandhi's sub-leaders could no longer follow his ways of non-violent resistance. Most of them are babus (educated men) who want political careers in an independent (or dominion-status) India and cannot imagine getting them from Adolf Hitler or Emperor Hirohito. The Mahatma would no longer try to lead men who would not follow. Rather than step from his principles, the ascetic little lawyer stepped from his leadership...
...adviser to the Indian Delegations to the 10th and 11th Assemblies of the League of Nations and to the Conference on Dominion Legislation in 1929 and 1930, and was Joint Secretary to the British India Delegation to the Indian Round Table Conference with representatives of the Government of the Union of South Africa in 1932. His mission to Washington has followed his appointment as Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health and Lands...
These were harsh words for any Dominion to address to its Imperial grandmother, but they came last week from Australian Prime Minister John Curtin and were addressed by inference to Prime Minister Churchill in Washington. Australia was hopping mad at being left out of the Allied discussions of strategy, equally angry over Britain's feeble war effort in the Far East...