Word: yerovda
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...