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Simms: Indians urging U.S. envoy and Gandhi parley
Roosevelt’s ‘ear’ reported coming home without seeing Mahatma
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
Washington –
Reports are that William Phillips, former Ambassador to Italy, now President Roosevelt’s envoy to India, is coming home without seeing Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, or other Congress Party leaders presently in prison for stirring up revolt against Britain.
In this country, the influential India League of America, through its president, Sirdar J. J. Singh, and others, both Indian and American, is doing what it can to induce President Roosevelt to appeal directly to Prime Minister Churchill to make possible a meeting between Mr. Phillips and Mr. Gandhi.
Unquestionably, both the President and Mr. Phillips are strictly within diplomatic usage in steering clear of revolutionary elements with the realm of a friendly country. However, in the case of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Gandhi, many feel that an exception might be made.
Wants whole story
The ties between Britain and America are particularly close. Mr. Phillips is the eyes and ears of the President. And doubtless the President would very much like to hear from Mr. Phillips, upon his return, not an incomplete and more or less one-sided recital but the whole story of the Anglo-Indian quarrel.
True, Mr. Gandhi has spoken and written a great deal on his side of the controversy. He said he saw “no difference” between the Axis and the Allies, and objected to American aid.
Nevertheless, there are reports that Mr. Gandhi may have something new to offer. But Congress Party circles say the British will not allow the Mahatma to receive visitors.
British have good reasons
It is not difficult, however, to understand the British position. They are fighting for their lives. The Japs are still at the gates of India. Gandhi tried to work a squeeze-play on them to force them out of India at a time when, had it succeeded, it might have spelled disaster for the United Nations as a whole, including India.
Gandhi lost that play and the British do not feel called upon to give him another chance now by permitting conferences between and his lieutenants in prison, for he could run a revolt from jail as well.
But Mr. Phillips is merely Mr. Roosevelt’s reporter. And India is bound to be one of the most important post-war issues with which not only Britain but the world will have to contend.
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