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India's sensitiveness has not been lessened by Sir Stafford Cripps's recent negotiations. During the weeks since the negotiations, the reasons for their breakdown have become increasingly clear. In the main they were...
...talked about the Commandos with their leader, Lord Louis Mountbatten-interviewed men who had been in the Commando raids at the Lofoten Islands and St. Nazaire-lunched with Winston Churchill-questioned Anthony Eden, Sir Stafford Cripps, Oliver Lyttelton and many others on the progress...
Promises that the British Government would heed the voice of its people-and of the Russians-had been piling up for weeks past. But, wrapped in the rhetoric of Winston Churchill and the cautious legal phrases of Sir Stafford Cripps, they had somehow lacked the impact of a pledge. Last week the assurance came, not flat, not unequivocal, but clear...
...Churchill Government, through the voice of Sir Stafford Cripps, pledged last week that Britain would make "a carefully planned attack on the continent of Europe." That was what legions of Britons had been crying to hear. But just what "attack" meant they still did not know...
...Government's apologist, Sir Stafford Cripps replied in generalities, seemed tired. His speech not only failed to raise his political star, but, many felt, substantially lowered it. But while Sir Stafford, as the Government's mouthpiece, disappointed many, the leftish weekly Tribune, which Sir Stafford founded, voiced the clamor of millions of Britons...