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HITLER WAS DEAD . . .
The peace in Europe almost a month old; only the Japanese remained to be dealt with. In June the Viceroy left London, flew back to Delhi, said nothing in public for nearly two weeks and then announced a conference of Indian leaders at Simla to discuss proposals which he hoped would ease the political situation, hasten final victory and advance the country towards her goal of full self-government.
To enable all the leaders to be there he had to issue several orders of release from imprisonment.
The conference opened on June 25 and did not break down until July 14 . . . . in press conference, the leader of the All-India Congress Party, a Muslim, blamed the leader of the Muslim League for the unbending nature of his claim for the League's right to nominate all Muslim members of the proposed Executive Council and blamed the British Government for not having foreseen that the conference would break down if one party were given the right of veto on nominations and therefore the opportunity to hold up the country's progress to autonomy.
The leader of the Muslim League spoke disapprovingly of a combination of Hindu interests supported by the 'latest exponent of geographical unity' . . . . the Viceroy whose plan in his opinion was a snare for Muslim interests.
Mr Nehru described the Muslim League as mediaeval in conception, and warned that the real problem facing a free India would not be communal and religious differences but economic backwardness. . . . .
Content:
- An Evening at teh Maharanee's
- Journeys into Uneasy Distances
- The Moghul Room
- The Dark Bungalow
- The Circuit House
- Pandora's Box
