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...India's summer capital, statesman ship and wisdom were on trial. For in Simla's viceregal lodge the momentous conference of Viceroy Lord Wavell and India's nationalist leaders was about to begin. At stake was the future of India and the Wavell Plan (TIME, May 21), leading to eventual Indian self-government...
...Simla, India's cool summer capital, an old Harrovian, Indian Nationalist Jawaharlal Nehru, and other Indian leaders will confer this week with Viceroy...
That the resentful Congress party would consent even to meet the Viceroy was a hopeful sign. Its principal conference delegates (ex-President Nehru and current President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad) had only just emerged from three years in jail-Nehru greyer and grimmer, Azad 46 lbs. lighter. Fellow Delegate Mohandas K. Gandhi, who ended his prison term 13 months ago, also gave the meeting his cautious blessing. Said he: "It would be a mistake to jump to a hasty conclusion that the Viceroy's proposals are good fortune for India. It would also be a mistake to dismiss them...
...release of eight Congress party leaders interned since 1942. Heading the list were: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leftist disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi; Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem opposed to Pakistan (the idea of an independent Moslem India); Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bombay party boss. Then the Viceroy invited Congress and other political leaders to confer with him at Simla, the summer capital on June...
...promptly replied that he would favor the Viceroy's plan, but would act only in an advisory capacity to his party. The Moslem League's president, Mohamed AH Jinnah, pledged cooperation. But some Indian nationalists sniffed the British plan cautiously. The Bombay Chronicle suspected that the 1,200 Indian political prisoners still in jail were being used as "bait" to lure Congress leaders into acceptance of the proposed Executive Council. But generally it was believed that Britain's offer would not be rejected...