Word: rajagopalachariar
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...East, India's leading political figures (excluding those in jail), industrial tycoons and Europeans met at Delhi within a stone's throw of the Maharaja's palace now occupied by William Phillips, the Boston Brahman who is President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League) joined...
From India came this comment on the Indian problem by Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C. R."), stanchest United Nations friend at liberty to speak his mind: "Whoever is to blame, they have succeeded in creating a great mess. The extension of the Viceroy's term symbolizes the situation most completely. Every party is sitting tight. . . . Now the situation is more difficult than before...
...British Raj last week gave one of India's leading statesmen a resounding rebuff. Gaunt, distinguished Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") has been the outstanding Indian exponent of all-out Indian effort against Japan (TIME, Nov. 2, et ante...
...Moslems. C. R.'s belief in the possibility of Hindu-Moslem agreement became more than a hypothesis when the Moslem League's mouthpiece, Dawn, spoke up loudly on his behalf: "The political situation, bad as it is, would not have been worsened by Mr. Rajagopalachariar's meeting Mr. Gandhi. . . . The very idea of victory while holding India on a leash must be agreeable to the die-hards and Blimps who would love to indulge in reminiscences about India being easily controlled with the small finger of the left hand. . . . All the unrest we have...
Success was heady. In the tonic atmosphere of the victories it was easy for many people to forget the problems that were still unsolved. But voices soon reminded the people that the war and the peace were still enormously problematical. From India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar answered a condescending harangue of Winston Churchill. From England the Archbishop of Canterbury raised his voice against privilege. And from China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a compelling message this week to the New York Herald Tribune's forum on world affairs. Wrote the Gissimo...