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Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...
...long awaited "peace terms" offered by Mahatma Gandhi to the British Government were duly forwarded by Viceroy Lord Irwin to London last week. Nationalist demands were reported to be simply: "Give us Dominion status and we will abandon the civil disobedience campaign...
...removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
...Poona near the southwest coast, however, was a scene of placidity. "Peace negotiations" were entered into between St. Gandhi, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal, Nehru in Yeroda gaol, and the "moderate" leaders?Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar. Outcome of this meeting, sanctioned by the Viceroy, was a Gandhi peace proposal whose nature was kept secret...
...speech the Viceroy reaffirmed statements by the MacDonald government that the Anglo-Indian round table conference in London next October will be "free"?that is, will not be compelled to work out a solution in terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip...