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Last week President Roosevelt's envoy to India, William Phillips, announced that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
From his bench in New Delhi last week India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer handed down a bombshell decision: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and 8,000 other Congress party leaders were being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...
...Last week, despite the differences, the Moslem League rose to the defense of the Congress and answered the White Paper. The League's paper, Dawn, remarked that it was not fair to present one side of the case while the defendant was held silent behind bars. "For the Viceroy to be both prosecutor and judge carries its own commentary...
Gandhi had survived a fast of 21 days without wringing a single concession from Linlithgow. There had been cold logic behind the Viceroy's refusal to release Gandhi. From the standpoint of the Indian Government, the triumph of Linlithgow was complete, the failure of Gandhi was unqualified...
...Linlithgow, the victor, went Britain's praise for being the first Viceroy to withstand the pressure of a Gandhi fast without budging an inch. It was considered more newsworthy but less important that Gandhi, thinner than ever, his head propped on pillows, had broken his fast with a glass of orange juice in the Aga Khan's palace. Gandhi, whom the world's press last week had almost forgotten to call "Mahatma" ("Great Soul") was again just a prisoner, held incommunicado and charged with inciting revolt in wartime...