Word: truce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tongue they have shown signs of refusing to support a roundtable conference in India as was promised in the course of the London conference. In India the Mahatma seemed to have made peace with the Viceroy only to announce formally a few hours later that this was only a truce and that absolute independence from the British Empire was still his goal for India...
Under the truce arranged by Mr. Gandhi and Lord Irwin it is now legal for "local residents" and for them only to make salt in India for "home...
During the Irwin-Gandhi conversations, it was revealed last week, the Mahatma refused tea, drank hot lemonade containing a few grains of ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURED SALT. Thus the Viceroy became accessory to a crime. But under the truce signed last week any Indian may quarry salt or evaporate it from seawater for the use of himself or cattle, or even sell it within his village. Otherwise the salt trade remains a British prerogative...
Candid Gandhi. With utmost candor St. Gandhi admitted that the truce he signed can and may be rejected by the Indian National Congress, summoned last week for March 24 at New Delhi...
Before the Congress meets St. Gandhi will tour Bombay Province advocating the truce. "I will strain every nerve," he said. If adopted the Gandhi-Irwin agreement will form the basis for further negotiations at a Second Round Table Conference with St. Gandhi present...