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Less contented was the British Raj. Neither in Kashmir nor in the rest of India are there free grazing lands to match the optimistic rumors which the Kazaks had heard...
...British Raj was in an appeasing mood last week. Ostensibly because "all responsible opinion in India" is determined to support the war, the Government of India (acting for the Colonial office) decided to release civil-disobedience prisoners "whose offense has been formal and symbolic." Included were gentle, scholarly Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, President of the Indian National Congress, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, next to Mohandas K. Gandhi the most potent man in the Party...
...British Government hoped that these releases might bring all India in line with the Raj, if only for a short time. But to the Raj, Mahatma Gandhi had some discouraging words to say: "If the Government of India were so confident of the full support of India in the war effort, the logical conclusion would be to keep the civil-disobedience prisoners in confinement. . . . The only meaning I can attach to their release, therefore, is that the Government of India expects the prisoners to change their opinion regarding their self-invited solitude. I am hoping the Government will soon...
...archconservative, triple-chilled London Times has recently shown signs of a warming of the blood (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week this ancient defender of the British Raj and all its works not only criticized British policy in India. It also went on record in favor of extending to India more of that democracy which Britain is asking India to fight for. Said the Times...
...whose 13 members were "distinguished and representative Indians." Neither the Congress nor the Moslem League were consulted in the move, and both have since freely charged that all key jobs in the Council went to Britons, that the Indians picked were tried-&-true yes-men for the British Raj...