Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negotiations might again founder on the rocks of Pakistan, but Congress Leader Jawaharlal Nehru has already made some concessions to the Moslem League. He offered them "95% Pakistan"-Moslem provincial self-government in all matters except foreign affairs and defense, or a future plebiscite to determine whether some Moslem areas shall split from India and form a separate state...
...Cabinet delegation will negotiate against a background of famine. The monsoons failed to bring India's seasonal heavy rains; cyclones and tidal waves ravaged fertile Madras Province. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, blaming the British for the food failure, called on peasants to "rebel against the political and social conditions that brought [the famine] about. ... If we have to die, let us die like men and not like rats in a hole...
...Mutiny but Unity. This was not the normal language of Congress party leaders. Nehru and his fellows no longer denounced violence as if they meant it. They sensed a new mood in India's masses, and swung toward extreme methods lest new leaders arise more in tune with the spirit of rebellion...
Jawaharlal Nehru, 56, Gandhi teammate in the fight for independence, drew a formal rebuke from some followers for contributing to a blood bank. His health, they protested, is "national wealth which should be preserved." He should really "abstain from such destructive sacrifices...
While Hindus and Moslems were snarling at each other, Jawaharlal Nehru, ardent champion of Indian independence, summed up for them and for the world India's New Year's mood: "[We] will not willingly submit to any empire or any domination, and will revolt against it. It will be a continuing revolt of millions, with a passion behind it which even the atomic bomb will not suppress...