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Last week the three members of the British Cabinet Mission strove to force Indians to take the ultimate step-agreement on the constitution of an independent state. Much like a judge locking a hung jury in an uncomfortable room, Ministers Lord Pethick-Lawrence, A. V. Alexander and Sir Stafford Cripps prepared for a long Easter weekend in Kashmir's cool mountains with a message that when they returned "they hoped to find sufficient elements of agreement on which a settlement will be based...
...second floor by an elevator, and ushered across an acre of anteroom to a small council chamber furnished simply, except for one gold brocade settee. There, hour after hour, the one-eyed, stocky Viceroy, Lord Wavell, aged, infirm Lord Pethick-Lawrence, jolly A. V. Alexander and smiling, schoolmasterish Sir Stafford Cripps heard their visitors out. They were listening avidly for the answer to one question: would India's passionately disunited factions unite to receive and use their freedom...
...Stafford Manchester Wheeler...
Other British commodity exchanges wondered what was coming. All Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps would say was that the matter must be studied "case by case in the light of special circumstances, and cannot be decided on any preconceived theoretical basis." Translated, this doubletalk meant that the Government would see how well it did as a cotton dealer before it takes over any other commodity markets...
Teheran, the movie-in-progress, is a spy-soaked thriller, with clips from actual newsreels, built around the OGPU-reported Nazi plot to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Teheran meeting of the Big Three. British Producer John Stafford, backed by British-Italian capital and using a mixed British-Italiah-American cast, had set up shop in Rome's Scalera Studios because of a shortage of studio space and studio personnel in England...