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...Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica and Winchester. It mattered little that the title of Viscount of Winchester was as exotic in Simla as the Maharaja of Patiala would be in Wapping Old Stairs. In Lord Wavell was embodied the military might and the political glory of one of the only three great powers to survive...
Many of the Congress leaders who sat around the conference table with Lord Wavell at Simla last week had spent more time in the last few years inside than outside of his jails. Among them were the Congress Party's Moslem President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (both newly released from jail), and the Congress Party's moderate, resourceful lawyer Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar. In the background hovered the little man in the dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were...
...India's summer capital, statesman ship and wisdom were on trial. For in Simla's viceregal lodge the momentous conference of Viceroy Lord Wavell and India's nationalist leaders was about to begin. At stake was the future of India and the Wavell Plan (TIME, May 21), leading to eventual Indian self-government...
...days Simla seethed with secrecy, bubbled Math optimism. Then the conference suddenly stalled. In this political pinch, Lord Wavell was patient. At issue was the question: should the Moslem League have sole right to nominate the Moslem ministers in India's projected new government? Mohamed Ali Jinnah said yes. The delegates of the All-India Congress, which also includes Moslem members, claimed the right to nominate at least one Moslem minister. The factions agreed to adjourn until July 14, so that their working committees could try to work out some compromise...
Almost as cantankerous as Mohamed Ali Jinnah was Mohandas K. Gandhi. When he reached Simla, Gandhi was exhausted. Huge crowds had surrounded his third-class railway coach at almost every stop from Bombay. Then he was closeted for nearly two hours with Lord Wavell...