Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...20?Round Table conference on Indian Affairs; at St. James's Palace, London. Not invited: Mahatma Gandhi, Mrs. Naidu, Pandit Motilal Nehru, Patel brothers...
...20?Round table conference on Indian Affairs; at St. James's Palace, London. Not invited: Mahatma Gandhi, Mrs. Naidu, Pandit Motilal Nehru, Patel brothers...
Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...
...addition Mr. Gandhi and the Pandits Nehru demanded that India's defense forces be turned over to Indians, that all political prisoners be released, and that all fines collected from Indians for political offenses be paid back to them by the British Raj. After these "preliminary demands" had been met, the Gandhites declared, they would be willing to discuss the question whether they should send representatives to the Round Table...
...Poona near the southwest coast, however, was a scene of placidity. "Peace negotiations" were entered into between St. Gandhi, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal, Nehru in Yeroda gaol, and the "moderate" leaders?Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar. Outcome of this meeting, sanctioned by the Viceroy, was a Gandhi peace proposal whose nature was kept secret...