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...forth alarmingly in the North-West Frontier territory. Therefore last week it was "raised to the status of a Governor's Province"-this British boon being conferred upon the dazzled natives with a show of might and riches calculated to arouse wholehearted fear and admiration for the British Raj...
...Learned that St. Gandhi's predominantly Hindu Indian National Congress had been joined in opposition to the British Raj last week by the All India Moslem Conference which passed a strong resolution at Lahore threatening "direct action" in the struggle for Indian freedom...
Protests against the British Raj have indeed taken the form of a "no rent" campaign which is spreading throughout the United Provinces and into the realm of H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. In Allahabad, correspondents summarized their fears by guessing that "one hundred thousand peasants in hundreds of villages" met and swore collective oaths to pay their landlords no rent...
...Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party had gathered last week in Karachi, grouped in a great camp of tents and bamboo shanties. Correspondents were not sure but what St. Gandhi was drawing near his Waterloo. Younger elements in the party were urging violent resistance to the British Raj. Leaders of this young rebellion against elderly, non-violent Mr. Gandhi were the Mayor of Calcutta, Subhas Chandra Bose and the retiring President of the Congress, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru...
...addition Mr. Gandhi and the Pandits Nehru demanded that India's defense forces be turned over to Indians, that all political prisoners be released, and that all fines collected from Indians for political offenses be paid back to them by the British Raj. After these "preliminary demands" had been met, the Gandhites declared, they would be willing to discuss the question whether they should send representatives to the Round Table...