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...when the Viceroy, following the Constitution, declared India in the war, the Congress forsook provincial self-government, withdrew its ministries, began demanding Indian independence as the price of war cooperation. Meanwhile India's second largest political party, Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League, loudly claimed that it could never submit to united Indian self-government unless it had 50% representation, since otherwise India's Moslems would be a permanent minority under the Congress-dominated Hindu majority. The Moslem League claimed heavy discrimination against Moslems, even atrocities, by Congress bureaucracies under the Act of 1935. The League began...
...Indian Government, found itself shy 26 of its 141 members. The 26, members of the Moslem League, most important political party in India after Gandhi's India National Congress, had walked out in a body, led by the League's astute president, monocled Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
...When Jinnah and his followers took their walk last week, most observers felt that it was chiefly a delayed-action protest against the Council. But it also seemed clearer than ever that if Britain wants more than lukewarm cooperation in fighting World War II, she must do more than talk about settling India's problems...
...Council, the key portfolios-Finance, Defense, External Affairs and Home Affairs-are all held by British officials. Purred Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for the Indian National Congress: "The announcement [of the appointments] . . . does not affect the stand taken by the Congress nor does it meet the Congress demands." Mahomed Ali Jinnah, who is thinner even than Saint Gandhi and is President of the All-India Moslem League, threatened disciplinary action against those who have anything to do with the Council...
Last week Mohandas Gandhi showed that he was determined to go ahead in his anti-British campaign without Moslem Jinnah's support. He authorized a statement which even the bitterest Moslem would think reasonable: "If Britain fights for the maintenance of democracy, she must necessarily end imperialism in her own possessions and establish full democracy in India...