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...bone-thin, ardent, intellectual Hindu statesman who bears the formidable name of Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar (pronounced Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar) had ideas last week for an Indian settlement. C. R. wanted to be asked to London. Said he: "I feel the British people have been misled in connection with the Indian problem, and I believe I can make them see the truth...
...showed a surprising docility among Labor M.P.s, some of whom were rumored earlier to be urging Sir Stafford Cripps to resign his War Cabinet post in protest against Tory policies. It came a few days after 56 prominent Britons had signed a 400-word appeal to liberal, able Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") urging him to form a national Government. C. R. flatly contradicted a recent Cripps statement that Gandhi had personally aborted an attempt at an Indian settlement last spring. Of the Secretary of State for India's speech, Rajagopalachariar said: "The drift is far too perilous...
...Jinnah, the Qaid-e-Azam (grand leader) and permanent president of the Moslem League, first threatened civil war if the British gave in to Gandhi. Still shouting for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), Jinnah then sought a conference with Gandhi on the question of a wartime national government. Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), who resigned from the Congress party in protest against violent threats of nonviolence, suggested arbitration by the United Nations...
...Congress represent India? Never had Congress entered mass action with so much of its own press against it. The Bombay Chronicle, Lahore Tribune and Madras Hindu assailed the Congress policy. The great Madras leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), who recently resigned from the Congress, was speaking against its policy publicly, though hissed and booed. Dawn, the organ of the Moslem League, which represents some, but far from all, of India's huge Moslem minority, was crying that Britain's yielding to Congress would result in "the rule of the jungle, anarchy and disorder...
Most of it was a contest between the ideas of gaunt, intellectual Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), leader of the party's great Madras section, and of gaunt, mystical Mohandas Gandhi, still the saint of most of the party...