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...their second, sank the 1,695-ton Kipling on a third go and so severely damaged her sister ship the Jackal that the British sank her next day. The signs of increasing Axis activity might simply be provoked by an Allied success in the war of nerves. Sir Stafford Cripps, British Lord Privy Seal, recently told his Bristol constituents: "The Germans are getting uneasy at the militant spirit of the British and American people in this matter of a second front." The Italians, who know that some of the most militant Allied strategists propose to establish the second front...
...Stafford Cripps's recent journey to India was not a failure. On the contrary, it boosted public morale and gave the country a great amount of political consciousness," T. A. Raman, editor of the United Press of India, recently stated when interviewed in the midst of a general tour of the United States...
...favored Sir Stafford Cripps' recently rejected proposal for post-war Indian self-government and he wanted an internally amicable India to fight Japan tooth & nail. He had suggested fortnight ago that the Congress, as Britain proposed, recognize the right of India's great Moslem minority to form a separate state if they wished. Gandhi stood for no concessions to Britain, no violence toward the Japanese, no secession for the Moslems...
...Wallasey (Conservative since 1918) Independent Gordon L. Reakes defeated Conservative John Pennington and Independent Major Leonard Harrison Cripps (ultrarightist brother of leftist Sir Stafford Cripps), 12,596-to-6,584-to-1,597. Conservative Pennington, local Tory leader, conceded: "Wallasey has spoken in no uncertain voice and I accept its decision in good part...
...When Sir Stafford Cripps left India three weeks ago he felt that, although his mission had technically failed, his visit had not been in vain. For the first time ever, there was hope that India's two great political bodies, the Indian National Congress party and the Moslem League, might get closer together. Last week Sir Stafford heard cheering news...