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Ever since the Indian Mutiny in 1857 the British Raj had managed to deal with such disturbances. A long line of viceroys, some bad, some as imbued with noble sentiments as Viscount Halifax, professed that British rule was guiding India through evolution to eventual dominionhood in the British Empire. But last week it appeared that evolution had turned into revolution. India held not only jailed prophets but also homemade bombs, pistols and bottles of acid in the hands of terrorists. From the western world the Indians were learning the technique of violence, not the technique of self-government...
...optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia for years. Intervention? Not so befogged as the British Raj was Frances Gunther of the onetime writing team of John and Frances Gunther. In Common Sense last week she wrote: "The major event of World War I was the Russian Revolution. . . . The major event of World War II is the Indian Revolution. . . . What are we, the United Nations, doing about the Indian...
...Richly garbed palace servants chattered in the courtyards. In Bombay's Willingdon Club the smart set gushed about it over chotapeg. The talk even slid through the lacelike alabaster screens in the harems. In the midst of internal revolution, with a Japanese invasion threatened, His Highness the Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("Junior" to American friends) had abdicated...
Commemorating Gandhi's month-old arrest, hundreds of his followers, choking under a tear-gas barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
Churchill gave one fact that had not been acknowledged by the Raj in India, or admitted to the outside world through India's tight censorship: Japanese fifth-column work in the northeastern (invasion) provinces of Bengal and Assam has been on a "widely extended scale and with special direction to strategic points." In spite of the obvious reminder of Hong Kong, Singapore and Burma, Churchill summed up the Indian situation as "improving and, on the whole, reassuring...