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Bleak Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, was scheduled to retire in April 1943, and, though it was well into December, his successor had not been named. His term had already been extended through two abrasive years and he was tired...
...Charter granting freedom to all post-war minorities, came the statement "I have not been made the King's First Minister to be present at the liquidation of the British Empire." From the Indian capital, only 500 miles from the Japanese front lines, came the news of the Viceroy's denial of Gandhi's request to interview a Hindu leader who came to him with the offer of a Hindu-Mohammedan agreement...
Essentially both Churchill's speech and Lord Linlithgow's refusal come as a manifestation of the same political frame of mind. The war leader emphatically pronounced that he would not be a party to any move altering the re-war colonial status quo, and the Viceroy's action was aimed at seeing that this policy could be effected without the menace of a united India. The whole chain of events clarifies a hitherto misty picture...
...Congress party. Recently he interviewed Moslem League President Mohammed AH Jinnah, felt that the results of their conversation should be reported to the Congress party's imprisoned Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Last week C. R., in white robes and sandals, his sunglasses on his aquiline nose, called on the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, and asked permission to see Gandhi. The tall, cool Viceroy refused...
...proposed that the Viceroy at once invite popular Indian leaders, including those from the Congress party...