Word: gandhis
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Common Sense has published a remarkable document - five letters exchanged between Mohandas K. Gandhi (then a political prisoner in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona) and India's Viceroy, Viscount Wavell. In his foreword Newsman Louis Fischer, who made the letters public, claimed that Gandhi's recent conciliatory proposal to Wavell for Indian independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader...
...Gandhi to Wavell...
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...
...Gandhi had also offered to meet India's Viceroy, Lord Wavell. If Lord Wavell would promise India independence at once, Gandhi would throw the power of the All-India National Congress behind the Allied war effort. Said the Viceroy, who knows that the Congress speaks for only a fraction of India's 390,000,000 people: there was no point in a meeting now, but the Government would gladly consider "any definite and constructive proposal...
...week's end reluctant Mohamed Ali Jinnah had worried himself into the last resort of a statesman: he was taken sick. His meeting with Gandhi would have to be postponed...