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...palace in New Delhi. Inside, he was whisked to the second floor by an elevator, and ushered across an acre of anteroom to a small council chamber furnished simply, except for one gold brocade settee. There, hour after hour, the one-eyed, stocky Viceroy, Lord Wavell, aged, infirm Lord Pethick-Lawrence, jolly A. V. Alexander and smiling, schoolmasterish Sir Stafford Cripps heard their visitors out. They were listening avidly for the answer to one question: would India's passionately disunited factions unite to receive and use their freedom...
Attlee noted that the "tide of nationalism is running very fast in India," that it has spread even to "those wonderful soldiers" who are the mainstay of British forces overseas. He emphasized that the new ministerial mission-Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Pethick-Lawrence and A. V. Alexander-would have "as free a hand as possible" to make important decisions on the spot. "This is the time, emphatically, for very definite and clear action...
Pakistan or War? Last week London announced that three Cabinet ministers-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade-would go to India to repeat and perhaps to better Cripps's 1942 efforts to reach an agreement with Hindus and Moslems on dominion status for India...
...place-seeking, envy, dislike between individuals. Said Coventry's M.P., Maurice Adelman: "I would rather never have an office than indulge in some of the place-seeking that is going on." Labor's youngish "intellectuals" in the House would like to throw 74-year-old Lord Pethick-Lawrence out of the India Office, stubborn Jack Lawson out of the War Office. But these are inevitable trifles...
Votes & Issues. As the year opened, Secretary of State for India Lord Pethick-Lawrence dutifully reiterated Britain's old promise: she would do all she could to help India reach Dominion status. For over three years, in one form or another, Britain had been offering just that-postwar independence inside the Empire (i.e., Dominion status), provided Indians could agree among themselves on what form of self-rule they wanted. Hindus wanted a united, free India; Moslems wanted a separate state for themselves (Pakistan) inside a free India. Both Hindus and Moslems wanted the British...