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...would further infuriate the Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Gandhi was very tough in handling the opposition to his policy. Objecting to newspaper stories about the negotiations, he dropped his air of outward benevolence, cried: "If I were appointed dictator for a day in place of the Viceroy, I would stop all newspapers-except, of course, Harijan" (Gandhi's mouthpiece...
Married. Captain the Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone, 28, first cousin of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, former aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India; and the Hon. Jean Frances Gibbs, 26, Princess Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting, widow of a captain killed at Nijmegen in 1944; he for the first time, she for the second; in London. The royal family attended the wedding en masse, Princess Elizabeth as a bridesmaid...
...British proposed two intermediate steps leading to a final transfer of power: 1) the Viceroy will set up an interim all-Indian cabinet; 2) the provincial assemblies and the princes' states will send delegates to a constituent assembly to frame a permanent constitution for India...
Through Mohandas Gandhi the Congress Party indicated that it will support the British plan. He said: "The mission and the Viceroy are as God-fearing as we ourselves claim to be. Whatever the wrong done to India by British rule, if the statement of the mission is genuine, as I believe it is, it is in discharge of an obligation they have declared the British owed toward India, namely, to get off India's back...
Note of Regret. Winston Churchill, who called the White Paper an "able but melancholy document," realized with a note of regret that the Empire was, indeed, in liquidation. "No one will doubt," he said, "the sincerity and earnestness with which the Cabinet ministers and the Viceroy have labored to bring about a solution of the Indian difficulty . . . with a zeal which would be natural were it to gain an empire, not to cast it away...