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Unshaken by his first failure to break the Indian deadlock (TIME, July 16), Viceroy Lord Wavell would try again. Last week, he emplaned for London to try to figure out with the Labor Government a new way to crack the old problem...
This time there was a chance of a more realistic proposal. The highest hurdle to communal agreement between Hindus (256 million) and Moslems (92 million) has been the Moslem League's demand for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state). Before he departed, the Viceroy made a decisive move to clarify this befogged subject: he proclaimed elections, the first in eleven years for the Central Assembly, in eight for the eleven Provincial Legislatures...
...head of the conference table the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, his face showing the strain of a fortnight's recurring crises, announced that his present effort to give India self-government had failed. Of the parties represented, all but the Moslem League had handed him lists of prospective members of the proposed Executive Council. The predominantly Hindu Congress party had been willing to take office. But, in the person of its President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem League had rejected Wavell's plan...
...Said the Viceroy: "I therefore made my provisional selections, including certain Moslem League names. . . . Mr. Jinnah told me it was not acceptable to the Moslem League, and he was so decided that I felt it would be useless to continue discussions. The conference has therefore failed...
...assuming all, the Viceroy had absolved even the Moslem League for its part in wrecking the conference. The door to reconciliation was thus left open a crack...