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...Moslem League scheduled for the next fortnight. Said the Congress' Mohandas Gandhi: "In spite of my love for the British, I think their imperialism has been the greatest crime against India. The immediate thing, therefore, that the British Government should do is confess the wrong and undo it. Of the undoing there is as yet no sign visible in the Indian sky." The Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah still clung to the League's demands for a separate Moslem state...
When a squadron of Free French corvettes sailed into the harbor of St. Pierre on Christmas Eve and took possession of the islands in the name of General Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull was downright mad. He feared this Free French coup might undo all his work...
Thus ended the last hope that the France of Henri Philippe Pétain and Jean François Darlan might be saved from Hitler's Europe. Scarcely had the Allier flowed another league than half a dozen collaborationist officials were on their way to North Africa to undo the work that Maxime Weygand had done. Marshal Pétain and Admiral Darlan packed to go to Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven...
Russian diplomats last week were in a scurry, trying in a few days to undo their work of the last two years. While the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany was in force Russia had nimbly followed the Nazis' lead, as one country after another fell prey to Hitler, disowning their exiled governments, recognizing German sovereignty or puppet regimes. Now, as a half-digested German conquest herself, she wanted to make friends...
...criticize the American entry into the war in 1917 have ever suggested that once in, we should have halted the war effort and backed out again before it was won. We may or may not have been unwise in what we did in 1917 but we could not undo it in 1918; we could not undo it (though we tried disastrously to do so) in 1920 or in the subsequent decades. And we cannot now undo the history of those decades by imagining ourselves back in a time which they have destroyed...