Word: zinovieff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace with the Japanese was a bitter pill for the British. The reports of his later contradictory statements only confused the issue. The Government's position that Gandhi's call for civil disobedience was a "stab in the back" was widely accepted. Forgotten apparently was the famed Zinovieff letter of 1924, which swung an election through public misunderstanding. The British were hard pressed on many fronts, had suffered too many defeats and disappointments to have sympathy for illogical "blackmail...
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