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First he must try to end the deadlock between the truculent Moslem League and the All-India National Congress. To the League's President Mohamed Ali Jinnah last month he offered recognition of the principle of Pakistan-the right of a Moslem majority to set up an independent Moslem state. For years Gandhi had brushed off the Pakistan idea as the "vivisection of Mother India...
Sneered ungrateful Leader Jinnah: "A parody of negation. . . . Pure shadow and husk of our Pakistan scheme...
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...
...same years, his most potent Indian rival had grown in power. As Gandhi speaks professionally for India's Hindu masses (255,000,000), so Mohamed Ali Jinnah speaks professionally for India's Moslems (92,000,000). Jinnah maintained that Hindu-Moslem unity was impossible. He insisted that, in a free India, autonomy should be granted to areas where Moslems are in the majority, and he called his doctrine Pakistan. Gandhi called Pakistan a perpetual vivisection of Mother India, held until last week that the whole Hindu-Moslem question should be postponed until independence is achieved...
Last week Gandhi suddenly reversed himself-or seemed to. He sent word to Jinnah that he was willing to accept the principle of Hindu-Moslem separation, let the people in mixed areas decide by plebiscite. It was not Pakistan, it was hedged with qualifications, but it was a momentous concession for Gandhi to make...