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...time has been long, the measure small. India is still an Empire, with Britain's King its Emperor. Eight weeks ago His Excellency the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor General of India, committed India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest...
Said Bombay Independent Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's untouchables : "What else could the Viceroy have done under the circumstances...
Since the Viceroy's voice in the Indian Government is more powerful than the votes of all legislators put together, his statement committed the vast subcontinent to war. This fact was appreciated by all, but from the Indians present came no sign of enthusiasm. It was only when His Excellency unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly...
...Viceroy can declare war, but to put India's resources and men back of Britain he must have the support of the emaciated Mahatma M. K. Gandhi who holds no office but whose word is nevertheless virtual law to millions of potentially troublesome Hindus. In the last war India sent some 1,338,620 men to battle areas, all paid for out of the Indian Treasury, not to mention the wealth and materials that poured toward London. By last week some detachments of Indian troops had been sent already to Malaya and Egypt at no expense to the British...
Cagily the Mahatma kept silence after his first viceregal visit. Later on he let it be known that Führer Hitler's camp was opposite his own and that he was a "sworn enemy of brute force." The Viceroy invited him back again, and then again, until last week His Excellency and the Mahatma saw each other for the third time in less than a month. Meanwhile, Lord Linlithgow busied himself with talks with other Indian leaders-princes, Moslems, Hindus, Sikhs...