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Common Sense has published a remarkable document - five letters exchanged between Mohandas K. Gandhi (then a political prisoner in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona) and India's Viceroy, Viscount Wavell. In his foreword Newsman Louis Fischer, who made the letters public, claimed that Gandhi's recent conciliatory proposal to Wavell for Indian independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader...
Gandhi had also offered to meet India's Viceroy, Lord Wavell. If Lord Wavell would promise India independence at once, Gandhi would throw the power of the All-India National Congress behind the Allied war effort. Said the Viceroy, who knows that the Congress speaks for only a fraction of India's 390,000,000 people: there was no point in a meeting now, but the Government would gladly consider "any definite and constructive proposal...
...took a bold step in India last week. Viceroy Lord Wavell named hardheaded, hard-working Sir Ardeshir Dalal, 60, of Bombay's famed House of Tata, to a seat on his Executive Council and the job of postwar industrial planning. Britain had smiled on the ambitious Bombay 15-Year Plan, a proposal to spend $30,000,000,000 in modernizing backward India...
Until lately, many Indian industrialists contributed liberally to Mohandas Gandhi's Congress Party, banked on it for political backing. Now that the Party is in decline, they must bank on themselves and/or the British. When the Indian tycoons' man, Sir Ardeshir Dalal, joined the Viceroy's council, it looked as though India's industrialists and India's Raj were going to bank on each other. Tata & friends had said they still wanted a strong national government with power to act for India and Indians. Perhaps, through economic cooperation with the Raj, they could get what...
Change of Spirit? The Raj made one request of Gandhi: to keep political silence. The old man's intimates prayed that he would regain strength for one more grand effort. They spoke hopefully of a meeting between him and the Viceroy, a meeting that might wipe the slate clean, win at long last the cooperation of India's nationalists in the Empire's war. Said Devadas Gandhi's Hindusthan Times: "... Though the communique says the decision was taken on purely medical grounds, we permit ourselves the hope that this marks a change of spirit which...