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...Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, was attempting to prepare the ground for Sir Stafford Cripps, British Government representative now flying to India with a compromise proposal to meet the demands for immediate independence...
...London the British Government was still mulling over the old argument. The incredibly complicated India problem threatened to become purely academic, a mass of mere words. Sir Stafford Cripps politely told Parliament that the Government had postponed comment on India's demands for self-government. While the British public cried for action, London rumor held that Government proposals had struck snags both in London and New Delhi...
...most that was expected from the British Government last week was a compromise along the lines suggested by Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru. The Labor Party was urging it. Sir Stafford Cripps was probably urging it even more. The still-potent Tory imperialists were working hard against...
Londoners began to prophesy that within three months Sir Stafford Cripps would have talked himself either into Winston Churchill's job or out of the Cabinet. For the fourth successive week he was having a fling. Warmed by the success of his maiden speech as Leader of the Commons (TIME, March 9), the Red Squire last week begged the United Nations to snuggle more closely into bed. "After the victory," he said, "let us remain in the same gallant company to rebuild a stricken world upon the foundations of justice and equality that will secure for us, for them...
While Winston Churchill and the rest of the War Cabinet remained silent, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful newspapers began taking pot shots at Sir Stafford. Wrote the Evening Standard's brilliant, liberal editor Frank Owen: "Cripps had better get off that 'it-all-depends-on-you' theme. . . . We have had enough appeals to self-sacrifice. What the nation needs is not appeals but orders...