Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians came up one of Simla's highest, loveliest, fir-green hills to the viceregal lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru rode on a brown-and-white-spotted Yarkand pony; fierce-eyed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and goateed Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad each came in a ricksha pulled by four runners; tall, bearded Khan Abdul Ghaffar came on his own long legs; Mohamed Ali Jinnah and his Moslem League delegation in an ancient, khaki-colored Humber sedan...
...Congress and Moslem League leaders talked with the three-man British Cabinet delegation, trying to work out a compromise for the future government of India. The Viceroy's Executive Council (including its four British members) offered to resign to clear the way for an interim government. Hindu Nehru got the green light to become the next Congress Party president, replacing Moslem Azad, whom Jinnah bitterly regards as a traitor to Islam...
Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...
...down in his Delhi quarters last week, smoking a big cigar. "Eighty percent of the Indian people live in villages where Hindus and Moslems get along well together-the only trouble is among the twenty percent living in the cities. This is basically an economic conflict, not religious." Jawaharlal Nehru made the plainest answer: "Nothing on earth, including the United Nations, is going to bring about the Pakistan of Jinnah's conception." The Congress Party might compromise on some plan for a limited Pakistan within a federated India. Jinnah might change his mind-as he has so often before...