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...Delhi radio, Sir Stafford Cripps's voice was level and controlled. But his self-control could not hide his enormous disappointment. With the Japanese on the road to Mandalay and their bombers already roaring over the Indian coastline, India's political factions had been unable to resolve their suspicions of each other and of Britain. Many observers felt that they had witnessed one of those rare occasions in history when great bodies of men, after years of misunderstanding and misdealing, had a precious chance for a real meeting of minds-and were prevented from doing so by their...
...until the last the outcome had been in doubt. For days correspondents sat in the sweltering Imperial Hotel drinking chota pegs* or nursing the local form of dysentery called Delhi belly, laying bets on Sir Stafford's efforts as though they were a horse race...
...Louis Johnson, head of the U.S. economic mission to India, who had also got from President Roosevelt the title of "minister plenipotentiary and personal representative of the President." In his best brash style, Personal Representative Johnson had blown up a small tornado of interviews (19 with Sir Stafford Cripps, 16 with the Indian National Congress Party's Jawaharlal Nehru). He got along famously with his Indian callers, freely admitting that he knew nothing about India except what he had learned from Kim and With Clive In India as a boy. Once he quoted to Pandit Nehru: "I disapprove...
...Stafford Cripps failed in his mission to India because he could not overcome the stubborn and misguided idealism of the Indian nationalist leaders, Ghandi and Nehru," Walter Eugene Clark. Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House, asserted yesterday...
...figures ready to join the waxen ranks of the great in Mme. Tussaud's in London, world's most famed waxworks: General Douglas MacArthur, Sir Stafford Cripps, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...