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Mohamed Ali Jinnah was riding high (literally - on a dais mounted on a Dodge truck) when his Moslem League convened in Delhi in April. Never before in the League's hitherto pedestrian history had his followers turned out in such numbers...
...President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League) joined...
India's press is a hodgepodge. There are the British-owned English-language papers: the Calcutta Statesman, the Bombay Times of India, etc. There are few Moslem papers (some English-language, some native), like the newly started Delhi Dawn of Obstructionist Mohamed Ali Jinnah. And there are the liberal, Hindu-owned English-language and Hindu-language papers, like the Calcutta Amrita Bazar Patrika and the Bombay Chronicle, that support Mohandas Gandhi. These latter, in the majority, are always whole-hog for Indian independence...
Britain's major loss was expected to bring major gain to a minor man. Stouthearted, statesmanlike Sir Sikander was probably the only non-Congress Moslem important enough to challenge the claim of Mohamed Ali Jinnah to speak for all Moslems in India. In the last elections Jinnah's Moslem League won less than one-fourth of the seats officially reserved for Moslems in the Provinces; in the Sind, where Moslems are preponderant, it won not a single seat; in the North-West Frontier Province, with a population 92% Moslem, it polled less than 5% of all Moslem votes...
...Jinnah, whom the Congress calls a British tool, last week stepped up his pip-squeaking with a self-contradicting attack on a speech by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow. The tired Viceroy had again claimed that "agreement cannot be reached between the conflicting interests of this country as fro who is to take over responsibilities which we are only too ready to transfer to Indian hands." First Jinnah called Linlithgow's speech "most inopportune and likely to shatter what little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting...