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High-domed, socialistic Sir Stafford Cripps was off to India last week with British Government offers, arguments and possible compromises in his brief case...
Giving this job to Sir Stafford was a popular move on Prime Minister Winston Churchill's part, both at home and in India. Skeptics suggested that his passage to India might have been arranged by the Tory bloc, to rid the British scene of this ardent advocate of aid to Russia and Indian self-government (see p. 44). But there were signs that pointed against such a conclusion...
First, although few men could have been more aware of Tory pressure at home, Sir Stafford had volunteered to go. And Winston Churchill had never sounded more sincere. Foregoing all rhetoric, he gave Parliament straight, sensible reasons for the Cripps trip: "We should ill serve the common cause if we made a declaration which would be rejected by essential elements in the Indian world and which would provoke fierce communal disputes at the moment when the enemy is at the gates of India. . . . [Sir Stafford] carries with him the full confidence of the Government, and he has to procure...
...India, sympathetic Sir Stafford Cripps could sound out all factions privately, work toward compromises all around. He would do so with a veteran lawyer's tact as well as high minded ambition. Conceivably he might engineer an Indian agreement, headed toward representative self-government and all-out war effort, that would make his name ring in Indian and British history...
...German radio was elaborately prepared to sabotage Sir Stafford Cripps's trip to India. CBS's Bob Trout reported to North America last week an "argument" about Cripps that began last month between two German stations that broadcast in English, pretend to be British. One, the "New British Broadcasting Station," accused the other, the "Workers Challenge Station," of stooging for Cripps. The "Workers' Challenge" boys made a show of defending Cripps-while subtly characterizing him as a revolutionist. Last week the German radio kept turning the screw with this latest twist on the Bolshevist Bogey theme...