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Snow on India. Digging deep into India's troubled politics, Correspondent Edgar Snow of Satevepost wrote that long-sought agreement between the Hindu-dominated Congress and the Moslem League of shrewd-bargaining Ali Mohamed Jinnah would lead to almost immediate independence.* He said that war-plant production and expansion would be greatly accelerated by the motive of patriotism; that military training and conscription might be introduced; men of ability brought to defense service; villagers trained, as in China, to make war goods. "India," said Snow, "would lift up her head, shake off her inferiority complex, and get in tune...
After eleven days of silence, Gandhi wrote to the Viceroy asking new negotiations. He was curtly informed that agreement on a program of immediate Indian independence was unlikely. Monocled, shrewd, sardonic Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Qaid-e-Azam (grand leader) and permanent president of the Moslem League, first threatened civil war if the British gave in to Gandhi. Still shouting for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), Jinnah then sought a conference with Gandhi on the question of a wartime national government. Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), who resigned from the Congress party in protest against violent threats of nonviolence, suggested arbitration...
...Pagaro was brought to trial charged with kidnapping, torture and murder. One of India's sleekest defense counsels, President Mohamed Ali Jinnah of the Moslem League, got him off with an eight-year sentence. Paroled in 1936, he was confined to the city of Karachi, from which he escaped last year to prey upon witnesses who had testified against him. Shortly he was arrested again, for sabotaging telegraph lines, and jailed in Nagpur. But 1,000 miles away his shadow is still dark over Sind...
Ramann, lately stationed in London, has been broadcasting to India nightly. A member of a prominent Hindu family from the province of Madras on the East coast of India, he has had much personal contact with most of the nation's political leaders, including Gandhi, Nehru, and Mahandas Ali Jinnah, leader of India's 80,000,000 Moslems...
...Stafford well knew, Jinnah is not the spokesman for India's Moslems; his League actually represents only a small fraction of them. In the 1937 election the League won only 104 of the 480 seats reserved for Moslems in the eleven Provincial Assemblies; of 7,000,000 Moslem voters, only 300,000 voted the League ticket. Jinnah's importance is that he epitomizes the Moslems' fear of the Hindus?and this religious civil strife is the chief obstacle to Sir Stafford's mission...